On 2020-07-17 12:21, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 07/16/2020 10:03 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2020-07-17 11:20, Joe Zeff wrote: >>> On 07/16/2020 08:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>>> On the subject of research, I looked into the purpose of /media. I don't know when that was introduced >>>> in Fedora. I knew it was there, but I've ignored it. Anyway, in reading about it, its purpose is to be a place >>>> where removable media would be mounted. >>> >>> And what, pray tell, was wrong with the already existing /mnt? >> >> Wrong? Nothing, except that is where Bob originally intended to place the cifs mount. As, I believe, >> he has done with his nfs mounts. >> > > You misunderstand me. What I meant was what was wrong with /mnt that made the Fedora devs decide to create /media to do the same job? I didn't misunderstand you. Your question wasn't clear. I don't know the answer to your real question. It may not be a Fedora direction but a direction of Linux in general? Maybe someone who knows the history of it will answer? I'm not curious enough to research it. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
