-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 January 2002 10:08 am, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> [2002.01.21.0229 +0100]: ... > > > Note too, from a system management perspective, use of /mnt gives a > > single point of control for issues such as backups, which one presumably > > would not make of temporarially mounted, removeable, storage. > ... > > instead, i really think that we need a /media hierarchy. and from what i > can tell, that's the current state on the fhs-discuss mailing list. > /media for all kinds of removable media, a subdirectory for each > therein, and /mnt as a temporary mount point, and nothing more!
I've been lurking on this thread for a while. One possibility that hasn't been discussed is to assume mount points that can be automatically created (and destroyed) as either if root then /var/mnt/$device else $HOME/mnt/$device fi or alternatively if the $HOME route is unacceptable then /var/mnt/$USER/$device - -- Alan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8TRXV1mf3M5ZDr2kRAs/WAJ94UMK5Qm4FCv8nfwt1Ofgl4vyuvwCfd9Ks rpd7yAYeGIrsLr809UdTdvw= =v6a0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----