So does the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard carry an weight? It says that /media is the place for automatically mounted devices like floppy and cdrom.
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: BaseVol/GuestVol server for SLES9 >>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 3:33 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > Hum, I guess. Except that /mnt has been around vaguely forever and > perhaps the architect was concerned with name collisions of some sort. > /mnt/media might be a bit better than just /mnt. But, then again, > suppose /mnt has something mounted onto it? Some distributions already have things such as /mnt/floppy /mnt/cdrom I wish more of them did. If you're sticking things into USB ports, that means you're probably responsible for anything else mounted on the system. If you can't keep from tripping over yourself by mounting something on just plain /mnt, then you probably have even bigger problems waiting for you. ;) Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
