> > 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.
And I have a pile of Linux books that say to use /mnt/cdrom. I have Linux packages that say /mnt/cdrom ... > Where is the difference ? /mnt/foo is harder to find then a link > /foo to -> /mnt.d/foo. That's all I can see. You are still missing the biggest point Mounts should be by _volume_name_ or handy label not by device. Another common location for remote mounts is /export/machinename/... Alan
