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

[Johannes Poehlmann <johannes@caldera.de>]

Changes from version 1: changed ugly "/mnt.d" to /mount, clarify
the function of /mnt and propose a non-required structure of the
/mount directory.

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

Problem:
========

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.
Sun has a	    /floppy subdirectory, where the "volcheck"
		     program places a subdirectory for the floppy.

There are configurations, where it is not desirable to have
these mount points located in the root directory. When using
the auto mounter, the root directory can be "taken over" and
be blocked. This makes it desirable to put the mount points
into a subdirectory.

"/mnt" is reserved as a temporary mount point and not as
a directory of mount points by common practice. On 
the other hand the actual FHS closes the root directory
or additional subdirectories.

Proposed Solution:
==================

There may be a new subdirectory "/mounts". It may contain subdirectories
which are mount points for removable media like floppy disk, cdrom
or DVD drives. Also may there be subdirectories which are mount points
for non linux partitions. 

Temporary mounts are done on /mnt.

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

It is recommended (not required !) that /mounts is structured this way:

/mounts--+
	 +-cdrom0
	 +-cdrom1
	 +-cdrom...
         |
         +-cdburner0
         +-cdburner1
         +-cdburner..
         |
         +-dvd0
         +-dvd1
         +-dvd.....
         |
	 +-floppy0
	 +-floppy1
	 +-floppy...
         |
         +-other removable media.....
         |
         +-dos-+
         |     +--c
         |     +--d
         |     +--etc....
         |
         +--nt-+
         |     +--c
         |     +--d
         |     +--etc....
         |
         +--other classes of alien partitions........

All theses items are optional especially for non existing drives/ partitions.
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