On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 21:41 -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 1/15/24 20:05, David Wright wrote: > > And I've never created any mount point under /mnt. For a one time > > copy, /mnt is handy; always there, I don't have to mkdir at all. > > > What about when you need multiple temporary mount points?
I create subdirectories under /mnt as needed. > What about when you have an portable backup drive that you connect once > a week? And the drive is encrypted? And your backup system wants to > know where? See above :) Also, see https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.pdf It's left to the administrator to decide how temporary stuff is with /mnt. I use /srv for stuff that is being served by the particular system. /tmp is volatile nowadays and not temporary. That's particularly braindead when you want Libreoffice to be able to recover files after a crash, which, by default, autosaves in /tmp.
