as long as you're not using dash or something as a user, /mnt and /media are usually both 4 keystrokes (slash m _ tab), so the 'convenience' factor of /mnt is nil. but I'm not sure why you'd want to blindly auto mount every partition on an ambiguous USB device. maybe a conf file that you can add trusted UUIDs to if you _must_ auto mount?
--seth > On 26 Dec 2015, at 06:40, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 04:32:58PM -0500, Stephanie Daugherty wrote: >> FHS 2.3 apparently. They appear to serve mostly the same purpose, but /mnt >> is specified as "temporarily mounted filesystems" while /media is specified >> as just "removable media". >> >> Regardless, since the implementation of /media, automounters have tended to >> mount stuff there, while things manually mounted have tended to be mounted >> in /mnt, presumably avoiding conflict between what the administrator wants >> to do and what the automounter wants to do - which is a good precedent to >> follow IMHO. > > Actually, the difference _does_ matter. Paths under /mnt are made by the > sysadmin and thus are secure, paths under /media are created based on > untrusted input. > > These two need at least _some_ namespace disambiguation, and /mnt vs /media > serves that purpose. > > -- > A tit a day keeps the vet away. > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
