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

[Daniel Bradley <daniel@dstc.qut.edu.au>]

Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> 
> since it will be "new" for most users, it shoudnt be a cryptic name.
> "mnt.d" is cryptic in my optinion /mount or /disks should be fine.

I agree that it shouldn't be cryptic, but I disagree that it should be
targeted
at new users.

I prefer something like (go with me on the links to devs ok :)

/vol/fd0 --> /dev/fd0
/vol/hdf --> /dev/hdf (cdrom)
/vol/cdrom --> /vol/hdf

/home/USER/floppy --> /vol/fd0
/home/USER/cdrom  --> /vol/cdrom OR /vol/hdf

This is just to get around the usability issue, I'm not saying use /vol
for the magic directory (or vice versa). Also i'm easy on the exact
positioning within the user's home directory (having this or not is
definately a distribution decision not a recommendation for a standard).
But I do feel that users should be navigating from their home directory,
not from root which really holds OS stuff. IMO :)

Personally I feel that the actual names of the mount points are
irrelavant. If software relies on its installation media being in a
certain place then it's badly written - it probably inherently relies on
the type of media as well.

Defining the mount point eg. /vol or /mnt or /ext(ernal) makes sence for
system tidyness, best practice, kind of stuff. But that should be the
only reason.

Cheers,
Daniel Bradley.