Hi Callan, Thanks - I agree with following convention - thanks. Many thanks to all for helping. David
>On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 15:11 +1030, Callan Davies wrote: > > May I ask the advantage of putting it in /mnt or /media over leaving it > > in / (in root it doesn't show an icon)? > > Is it 'better' in the sense of 'nix convention or is there another > > advantage? I tend toward /home being better but only if I can overcome > > the icon. > > > > Hi Dave, > > I guess from a functionality perspective, there's not really a lot of > difference > where you put it. > > But from a tradition and correctness perspective, /mnt/something or more > recently, /media/something would be considered better. > > You could mount it in /home/something too, per previous posts. I hadn't > heard of > that before. At initial glance I'm not a fan of the idea as it makes > sharing the > folder between multiple users a little dirty, and I guess in the > unlikely event > that you deleted your user account and deleted the home directory, I'm > not sure > if that would cause all the files on your mounted filesystem to also be > deleted. > > I guess what I'm saying is, my opinion, if you can do /mnt/something > and not get > the icon, great. Else you might have to keep doing what you're already > doing :) > > Cheers, > Callan > > -------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using Adam Internet Webmail. > > > -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
