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

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

"Brian F. Kimball" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 03:02:12PM +0200, Johannes Poehlmann wrote:
> 
> > Proposed Solution:
> > ==================
> >
> > There may be a new subdirectory "/mounts". [...]
> 
> If this must be standardized, please pick something that's already in
> use by a large number of people instead of inventing a scheme that zero
> people use right now.  In other words, use /mnt/*.  Using /mnt/*
> disrupts those distributions and users who don't already use it.  Using
> /mounts disrupts everyone.

Not really, it allows those distributions that currently use /mnt/* to
just add a symlink /mounts --> /mnt to become complient.

And those that don't use /mnt/* have exactly the same work required to
move to /mounts, while not interferring with existing usage of /mnt.

Cheers,
Daniel Bradley.