Gael Duval wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > > > I think that any removable media (i.e. cdrom, dvd, zip, floppy) would be > > classified as temporary, and they would be found in /mnt and not in the > > /mounts directory. The mount point /mnt/cdrom would be temporary and > > never be a permanent /mount/cdrom mount point. :-) > > I think that it's a good pragmatic criteria for differentiation.
In my mind what is meant by a temporary mount point is one that is not dedicated to a particular device. For instance an administrator mounts /dev/hdd to /mnt so that he can back up a partition to it. The next day he mounts a USB zip disk that usually is not attached to the system to do something else. On the other hand mount points like /mnt/floppy, /mnt/cdrom etc. are more transient mount points. /mnt/floppy is more or less permanently assigned to a certain /dev/fd*, its accessibility is what is temporary. so I think: /mnt - temporary mount point for sysadmin use. /mnt/* - mount points for sysadmin use. /mounts/* - transient mount points for user use. Cheers, Daniel Bradley
