On Thu, 2020-07-16 at 22:21 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > What I meant was what was wrong with /mnt that made the Fedora devs > decide to create /media to do the same job? It's not quite the same job. /mnt was considered a place where you might mount one thing (such as temporarily connecting another hard drive, mounting directly onto /mnt, not subdirectories of various things mounted inside it). /media was considered a place where various types of transient or removable media might be automatically mounted (floppies, optical discs, etc). Now they seem to end up inside /var/run/username/, and be handled by your particular desktop rather than a more general purpose daemon. /net was considered a place where networked file systems might be automatically mounted by things like autofs. A key distinguishable difference with various filepaths was *automated* systems being associated with some of those mount points. It lets systems monitor those paths and behave specially. But if you manually put something in there, you could be in for some confusing times. By by "considered," I mean conventions came to be used, not hard and fast rules about their purposes. You can almost create any directory you like in the root of the filesystem, but if you create one named the same way that something else expects to make special use of, *you* get to deal with the problems. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.13.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 23 15:46:38 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ 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
