On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 03:22:00PM -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote:
| On Mon, 16 May 2005, Mitchell Laks wrote:
|
| > On Monday 16 May 2005 08:49 am, LeVA wrote:
| >
| > > -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,:
| > > > Hi,
| > > > are there any knowledgeable users of udev who can tell us how to
| > > > configure udev scripts to automatically create
| > > > /media/cdrom0 and /media/cdrom1?
| [ . . . ]
| > However, that udev info document seems to be focused on the /dev/ devices,
| > which makes sense. The crazy behavior that I and others have seen lately in
| > debian is that the devices
| >
| > /media/cdrom0 and /media/cdrom1 disappear after we reboot.
| >
| > And I thought udev affects only /dev/ files???
|
| udev handles devices (ie. special files in /dev). udev does not handle
| mount-points (ie. directories) in /media/, /mount/, /mnt/...
Correct.
| Software like gnome-volume-manager (others?) will create/delete
| mount-points in /media/ by parsing data from udev and hald.
I use udev, but I don't use gnome-volume-manager or anything like
that. I also don't have any problem with my mount points
automagically disappearing on my.
| I don't know if there is an official declaration somewhere, but I suspect
| that /media/ is for auto-generated mount-points and good old /mnt/ is for
| 'hand-made' ones.
The official declaration is the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Statndard):
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
(the site appears to be down, but here is google's cache of the
document:
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:pB4nw5faWhsJ:www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.pdf+fhs+filesystem+hierarchy+pdf+2.3+pathname.com&hl=en&client=firefox
)
-D
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