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Re: /mnt/cdrom or /mnt ?



I see more than one facet on this issue:

1 - installers (I think about RedHat here because that's what I'm
familiar with) can basically do as they please, as long as they do it in
a ramdisk so their choice goes away in a puff;
2 - application programs are basically asking "where is your cdrom", so
they need a standard path (real applications use getmntent(), I am
thinking about system
commands and startup scripts, where you set up the mtab); 
3 - distributions installing for the first time might use a default
place;
4 - distributions upgrading should obey the symlinks as 2 above (which
on a brief throught seems to mean leave them alone unless dangling);
5 - system admins are free to do what they please as long as they update
the links.

Example first-time installation:

/mnt/fhs/cdrom -> /mnt/redhat-default/cdrom
/mnt/redhat-default/cdrom

Opinionated sysadmin does:

/mnt/fhs/cdrom -> /romcd

and everything should work, including next RedHat upgrade. One single
point of update, and it seems you can write shell scripts, Tcl/Tk
frontends and no end of GUIs around this.

Now, as someone suggested, /mnt/fhs is likely to get crowded just like
/dev, since someone might have more than one cdrom (what about changers,
of which I have no experience ?).

Maybe I'm barking at the wrong tree, since this seems FHS territory.

Davide Bolcioni
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