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

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>]

On Thu, Jun 29, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:

> Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
> 
> > On 28 Jun 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > /misc has the disadvantage of having nothing to do with what any
> > > existing system uses.
> > > 
> > > All of the ones I know either directly mount on subdirs of /, or mount
> > > on subdirs of /mnt.
> > > 
> > Debian uses /floppy and /cdrom, so /mnt is left alone. I have used it for
> > several years, placing subdirectories within /mnt on which I mount the
> > other partitions I add to root. These are permanent mounts set up in
> > fstab, and I have never had any other software try to remount them, or
> > overmount something on /mnt.
> 
> Yes.  This contradict what I said.  Debian uses subdirectories of /.
> Red Hat and Solaris and Irix use subdirectories of /mnt.  I have no

This is wrong. Red Hat uses /mnt. Solaris 7 has /cdrom and uses /vol
for the volume manager. I'm not sure about Irix, but as far as I know
they also don't use subdirectories in /mnt.

  Thorsten

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