---- Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > From the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/index.html That page has not been updated since 2004. Still valid? Apparently, HAL doesn't think so. > ------------ > /media : Mount point for removable media > Purpose > > This directory contains subdirectories which are used as mount points > for removable media such as floppy disks, cdroms and zip disks. > > Rationale > > > Historically there have been a number of other different places used to > mount removable media such as /cdrom, /mnt or /mnt/cdrom. Placing the > mount points for all removable media directly in the root directory > would potentially result in a large number of extra directories in /. > Although the use of subdirectories in /mnt as a mount point has recently > been common, it conflicts with a much older tradition of using /mnt > directly as a temporary mount point. > > ------------- > /mnt : Mount point for a temporarily mounted filesystem > Purpose > > This directory is provided so that the system administrator may > temporarily mount a filesystem as needed. The content of this directory > is a local issue and should not affect the manner in which any program > is run. > > This directory must not be used by installation programs: a suitable > temporary directory not in use by the system must be used instead. > ---------------- > > Hope that clears it up. Yes...and no. That would seem to say that a permanently mouted filesystem such a a Windows partition on a dual boot system should not be mounted in /media since it is not removeable nor should it be mounted in /mnt since it is permanently mounted. But then where? Steve -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
