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Re: Invoking ddrescue



Le tridi 23 brumaire, an CCXXV, Pascal Hambourg a écrit :
> >Check whether there is really no filesystem on /dev/sdb6 !
> How ?

Try to mount it? It could be dangerous in theory if the device came from
a malicious source, but not in this instance.

> My understanding of the FHS was that /mnt was intended to be used as a
> temporary mount point, not to contain any subdirectories used as permanent
> mount points.

The FHS is not mandatory, any sysadmin is free to ignore any of its
points when they think it makes no sense.

I have been using /mnt like that for a long time and not had any trouble
with it.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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