Before going back to the FHS list, I'd like to summarize what I think the
opinions here were. Please correct me if I'm horribly off-base.
The idea of defining a default directory to hold directories for recurring
temporary mount points is considered to be a good one, though it's use should
be
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 9:27, Marc Wiz wrote:
May I suggest /tmounts or /tmnts?
I'll add them.
If people are concerned about lots of directories being created in
/'s file system then the top-level directory could itself be a file
system.
The problem was never about size, but about
On Saturday 22 November 2003 8:18, Charles Swiger wrote:
/mnt should be reserved as a default temporary mount point-- it's silly
to risk breaking existing tools or procedures. Anyway, I suggest you
solicit feedback from Solaris users and possibly MacOS X people as
well. Solaris features vold
but / or /mnt (e.g. /vol/cdrom, /var/mnt/camera,
/media/windows/C)
(some suggestions have been /media, /mounts, /vol, /var/mnt,
and /var/tmp/removable. Others?)
Thanks letting us know how you feel about this,
Frank Murphy
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:07:31 -0500 (EST), Jerry McAllister
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Good:
- All mount points in / (e.g. /cdrom, /camera, /windows/C) - current
FreeBSD standard
(Just come up with a nice sounding name for each)
The problem isn't what the names of the directories are,
It sounds like you think that a new root-level directory should be
created for this, and that /media would be OK, but there might be a (yet
undiscovered) better name. Is this accurate?
That seems like a pretty good summary.
jerry
Cool. Could you also explain to me why you think
On Friday 21 November 2003 6:36, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Could you also explain to me why you think that /var would be such
a bad place for this?
Well, I probably can't give a hard and fast absolute reason, but...
We use /var as a place for directoreis/files that can grow somewhat
