Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a big drive for stuff - /mnt or /media

2009-08-06 Thread pk
Stroller wrote: The only thing that springs to mind is that /mnt was originally used by system administrators to temporarily mount removable media. I think the FHS comes into it. But right now this isn't terribly convincing, particularly as I currently expect to be using one BIG volume, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a big drive for stuff - /mnt or /media

2009-08-06 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: Hi there, I'm in the process of commissioning a box which has a large hard drive on which videos, mp3s stuff will be stored. On all my other machines, such drives are mounted at /mnt/space (and a second drive at /mnt/morespace) I have a notion to move to a hierarchy under

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a big drive for stuff - /mnt or /media

2009-08-06 Thread Roy Wright
On Aug 6, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Dale wrote: Stroller wrote: Can anyone persuade me or provide other reasons for using /media? I'm running 3 systems that have media drives for my home theater. What I did was to mount the local volume on /var/media. Then used autofs to mount the nfs shared

[gentoo-user] Mounting a big drive for stuff - /mnt or /media

2009-08-05 Thread Stroller
Hi there, I'm in the process of commissioning a box which has a large hard drive on which videos, mp3s stuff will be stored. On all my other machines, such drives are mounted at /mnt/space (and a second drive at /mnt/morespace) I have a notion to move to a hierarchy under /media/ -