On 28 Jun 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > /misc has the disadvantage of having nothing to do with what any > existing system uses. > > All of the ones I know either directly mount on subdirs of /, or mount > on subdirs of /mnt. > Debian uses /floppy and /cdrom, so /mnt is left alone. I have used it for several years, placing subdirectories within /mnt on which I mount the other partitions I add to root. These are permanent mounts set up in fstab, and I have never had any other software try to remount them, or overmount something on /mnt.
Just a thought, but wouldn't a subdirectory in /var be more in the spirit of a temporary/variable mount point? This would leave /mnt and friends to the whim of distros and sys admins, while providing a "spec"able area for upstream software vendors to use. (dselect has its mountpoint for CDs down in /var somewhere, for instance) Luck, Dwarf
