Tyler Graf <[email protected]> writes: > I think to make a world a better place, just simply put /media in /mnt.
> /mnt/file/(winxp,distro, img01) > /mnt/dev/(cdrom, dvd, floppy, usb) This is not a good idea for the reasons stated by Jeff earlier in this thread: >>> The main reason for /media as a separate hierarchy than /mnt is >>> historical. /mnt has existed for many years, and even predates Linux. >>> Many sysadmins are accustomed to "owning" /mnt (meaning they can mount >>> stuff there manually, create subdirectories, etc., all at their own >>> whim). A standard cannot reasonably reserve a particular directory for the use of the local systems administrator, and then later impose structure beneath it. This *will* break people's systems that have tooling to manage /mnt and assume that they control everything under it (and therefore, in practice, Linux distributions just won't do this, so that part of the standard will be disregarded). At this point, realistically, even the "temporary" part of the FHS 2.3 has been lost, since that can't really be enforced, plus was not always respected in the original pre-Linux meaning of /mnt. I know of automated tooling that uses /mnt as the place to mount additional storage for Amazon instances, for example (EC2 instances have a very small root partition and additional storage has to be mounted elsewhere). Once a standard has released a part of its namespace for local use, it can't ever reclaim it or structure it. That's just how standards work, and is why one has to be fairly careful, in advance, before doing that. Standards work is not a friendly place for people who like to clean up and undo historical mistakes or infelicities, or organize things into clean and simple hierarchies. It can be quite frustrating that way. :) -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
