on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 07:33 AM +0000, Alan Chandler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -----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
See the kernel and BSD automounters for more on this topic. It doesn't fully address your suggestion, but does in part. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free We freed Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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