Re: PROPOSAL for FHS: Mount points for CDs, floppies and alien OS partitions.

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

> There is no defined/legal place, where cdroms, floppies or 
> alien OS partitions go to.
> 
> Suse uses	    /floppy, /cdrom etc.
> Caldera uses	    /mnt/floppy, /mnt/floppy.
Red Hat uses /mnt/floppy /mnt/cdrom

> "/mnt" is reserved as a temporary mount point and not as
> a directory of mount points by common practice. On 

Nobody I know in the modern Unix world uses /mnt that way

> There may be a convenience (soft) link "/cdrom" and "/floppy" which point
> into the directory "/mnt.d" if the latter exists.

Ugly IMHO. I'd rather keep /mnt/foo