Re: /cdrom vs. /media/cdrom

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Subject: Re: /cdrom vs. /media/cdrom
From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:32:48 -0600
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Paul Johnson wrote:
> I don't have a /media, and my laptop, which I just installed Debian on,
> also doesn't have a /media.  ???

Then you didn't install sarge using a current version of the installer.

> I believe the LSB puts removable media in /mnt/fd0, /mnt/scd0, etc.
> Debian puts the same devices in /floppy, /cdrom0, etc.

LSB goes with the FHS locations in this and generally all cases, and
recent FHS versions require /media. Using /mnt subdirectories has always
broken stuff and has never been in the LSB or the FHS.

-- 
see shy jo

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