What about /vol? In Solaris this is the default directory for the volume management daemon, which manages the CD-ROM and floppy devices. Anyone using Solaris can take a look at volfs(7FS) and associated man pages to see their exact conventions, obviously most of these would be irrelevant since Linux does not use vold, but the naming structure may be interesting.
That way, /mnt can (once again) be for temporary mounts, and /vol can be for system-wide standard mounts (/vol/cdrom, /vol/floppyA, /vol/floppyB, /vol/winC, etc). I don't think the standard should specify anything lower than /vol (for instance, what to call the cdrom drive or floppies, etc). Applications should learn to be flexible for this, and distributions should be able to use whatever defaults they want. However, having /vol (or something like it) as a standard in (perhaps) the FHS or the LSB would be a good idea because it would make it easier to administer systems (you can always just look in /vol to see the external or secondary filesystems). Just my $0.02. -- ¤--------------------------------------------------------------------¤ | Aaron Gaudio mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.rit.edu/~adg1653/ | ¤--------------------------------------------------------------------¤ | "The fool finds ignorance all around him. | | The wise man finds ignorance within." | ¤--------------------------------------------------------------------¤ Use of any of my email addresses is subject to the terms found at http://www.rit.edu/~adg1653/email.shtml. By using any of my addresses, you agree to be bound by the terms therein.
