Re: /mnt usage

[hw <hw@adminart.net>]

On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 21:41 -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> On 1/15/24 20:05, David Wright wrote:
>  > And I've never created any mount point under /mnt. For a one time
>  > copy, /mnt is handy; always there, I don't have to mkdir at all.
> 
> 
> What about when you need multiple temporary mount points?

I create subdirectories under /mnt as needed.

> What about when you have an portable backup drive that you connect once 
> a week?  And the drive is encrypted?  And your backup system wants to 
> know where?

See above :)

Also, see https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.pdf

It's left to the administrator to decide how temporary stuff is with
/mnt.  I use /srv for stuff that is being served by the particular
system.

/tmp is volatile nowadays and not temporary.  That's particularly
braindead when you want Libreoffice to be able to recover files after
a crash, which, by default, autosaves in /tmp.