RE: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

1998-01-16 Thread Peter Prohaska
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Ted Harding wrote: It's whatever suits your taste. I have directories /A: /C: and /D: for mounting msdos floppy partitions on: helps the DOSsers to feels at home! (and yes, the colon is part of the name). Put entries in /etc/fstab, a floppy in the drive, and people

Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

1998-01-16 Thread Peter Prohaska
On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, David Wright wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Peter Prohaska [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of

Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

1998-01-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Peter Prohaska [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all! Please dont flamme me for that unimportant question. But I was wondering, why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x

RE: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

1998-01-15 Thread Ted Harding
On 14-Jan-98 Peter Prohaska wrote: Hi all! Please dont flamme me for that unimportant question. But I was wondering, why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x shorties

Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

1998-01-15 Thread Sten Anderson
Peter Prohaska [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all! Please dont flamme me for that unimportant question. But I was wondering, why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x

Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

1998-01-15 Thread Erik Walthinsen
why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. I think it is a matter of convenience and tradition. Personally, I use /fd0, /fd1, etc. The RedHat method (/mnt/floppy) seems less than useful to me. The reason for this is that I always use /mnt for what it's designed for: temporary mounts.

Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

1998-01-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Peter Prohaska [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x shorties nor used during