On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > Peter Prohaska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. > > When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in > > /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x shorties nor > > used during installation I can't see why it lives on the root. > > The floppy drive not used during installation? Depends on how you > install.
I use floppy installation but I don't use /floppy. I assume the floppies don't actually get mounted during installation, so you have to type /dev/fd0. But I do like /floppy as I don't normally cd there, but I can type /f<tab> and that's it. I'm careful to preserve unique first letters for all the frequently used top level directories. In fact, only /bin, /boot, /lib and /var don't work this way (thanks to lost+found and the kernel link). -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
