Re: PROPOSAL for FHS: Mount points for CDs, floppies and alien OS partitions.
On Wed, Jun 14, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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
Mabe not you. But I know a lot who uses it this way. And I
know a lot of installation instructions from commercial
software which says you should use it. So they always have
a fixed start point in the docu and don't need to take
care about the real path to the cdrom or which medium ever
is used.
>
> > 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
Where is the difference ? /mnt/foo is harder to find then a link
/foo to -> /mnt.d/foo. That's all I can see.
Thorsten
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