On Wed, Jun 14, Alan Cox wrote: > > There is no defined/legal place, where cdroms, floppies or > > alien OS partitions go to. > > > > Suse uses /floppy, /cdrom etc. > > Caldera uses /mnt/floppy, /mnt/floppy. > Red Hat uses /mnt/floppy /mnt/cdrom > > > "/mnt" is reserved as a temporary mount point and not as > > a directory of mount points by common practice. On > > Nobody I know in the modern Unix world uses /mnt that way
Mabe not you. But I know a lot who uses it this way. And I know a lot of installation instructions from commercial software which says you should use it. So they always have a fixed start point in the docu and don't need to take care about the real path to the cdrom or which medium ever is used. > > > There may be a convenience (soft) link "/cdrom" and "/floppy" which point > > into the directory "/mnt.d" if the latter exists. > > Ugly IMHO. I'd rather keep /mnt/foo Where is the difference ? /mnt/foo is harder to find then a link /foo to -> /mnt.d/foo. That's all I can see. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
