On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 02:14:38PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 07:51:27PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > On 2014-11-27 19:18, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> > > According to the filesystem hierarchy standard, /mnt is the standard
> > > place for "temporarily mounted filesystems".
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
> >
> > Right, another reason to NOT mess around with it: if something was
> > temporarily mounted there, we will create the mountpoint inside that
> > filesystem with unforeseeable side effects.
>
> I always read that as "temporarily mounted there by the admin or some
> other human". Certainly not automatic mounts by software. There is a
> reason /media and such exists on many distributins.
I would not venture an "always", autofs for instance, used to mount
things under /mnt. and /media has not always existed either, we used
/mnt/cdrom.
--
Gilles.
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