My issue is that I really don't like typing extra keys unless really necessary. One of the nice things about linux used to be that you could hit two keys per directory level and get quite far. Now I am going to have to type: /sb[TAB]/ifco[TAB] instead of /s[TAB]/ifco[TAB].
oh crap... I didn't even think of that till you mentioned it...
I know what you mean tho. I took over a solaris server and the previous SA used /user for "user data" that jacked up my <tab>'n for /usr .
Please don't pollute / any more (one of the reasons I hate Windows is polluted root directories due to lack of structure by most users ...).
Exactly. Var is already a mess, lets not turn / into a mess also...
Well, /mnt/cdrom is normally temporary, as is /mnt/floppy. And again, this is increasing the tpying I have to do (even in a graphical file manager like Konqueror typing is quite a bit faster to get to a directory you know the location of) if /mnt is retained and /media added.
If someone really wants a "scratch" mount area, they can make /mnt/tmp or similar (this is what I do, usually for loopback mounts).
However, /media is a lot more descriptive than /mnt, but then it looks quite out of place in /, being the longest directory name now ....
It's a toss up, I don't care one way or another.... personally I create a new directory for a temp mount then remove it when i'm done everytime... With a team of SA's I don't want to mount over /mnt when another had already has a mount there... and checking if a directory has already been mounted gets old real fast... ;)
If /media is used instead of /mnt I'll just delete /mnt to keep / cleaner....
BTW, we mostly have non-system data in /home/{users,groups,projects,cvs},
but we are quite small ...
we keep our data in /export/{home[1,2,3...],proj[1,2,3]} then autofs manages /home and /proj with real names via NIS. From the users prospective all 130+ of our unix/linux boxes look the same in terms of data location as the only look in /home or /proj...
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