Re: /mnt usage

2024-01-16 Thread David Wright
On Mon 15 Jan 2024 at 21:41:15 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > On 1/15/24 20:05, David Wright wrote: > > And I've never created any mount point under /mnt. For a one time > > copy, /mnt is handy; always there, I don't have to mkdir at all. > > What about when you have an portable backup drive

Re: /mnt usage

2024-01-16 Thread Tom Furie
hw writes: > /tmp is volatile nowadays and not temporary. That's particularly Volatile storage is, by definition, temporary. > braindead when you want Libreoffice to be able to recover files after > a crash, which, by default, autosaves in /tmp. /tmp is a terrible place to store recovery

Re: /mnt usage

2024-01-16 Thread hw
On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 21:41 -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 1/15/24 20:05, David Wright wrote: > > And I've never created any mount point under /mnt. For a one time > > copy, /mnt is handy; always there, I don't have to mkdir at all. > > > What about when you need multiple temporary mount

Re: /mnt usage

2024-01-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 6:07 AM David Christensen wrote: > > On 1/15/24 20:05, David Wright wrote: > > And I've never created any mount point under /mnt. For a one time > > copy, /mnt is handy; always there, I don't have to mkdir at all. > > What about when you need multiple temporary mount

Re: /mnt usage

2024-01-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 1/16/24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 09:41:15PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: >> On 1/15/24 20:05, David Wright wrote: >> > And I've never created any mount point under /mnt. For a one time >> > copy, /mnt is handy; always there, I don't have to mkdir at all. >> >> >>

Re: /mnt usage

2024-01-15 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 09:41:15PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 1/15/24 20:05, David Wright wrote: > > And I've never created any mount point under /mnt. For a one time > > copy, /mnt is handy; always there, I don't have to mkdir at all. > > > What about when you need multiple temporary

/mnt usage

2024-01-15 Thread David Christensen
On 1/15/24 20:05, David Wright wrote: > And I've never created any mount point under /mnt. For a one time > copy, /mnt is handy; always there, I don't have to mkdir at all. What about when you need multiple temporary mount points? What about when you have an portable backup drive that you