From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 5 14:48:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C6C037B416 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 14:48:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 77208 invoked by uid 100); 5 Apr 2002 22:48:48 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15534.10703.807341.102231@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:48:47 -0600 To: "Kirk R. Wythers" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /mnt ? In-Reply-To: <1018019821.85728.4.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> References: <1018019821.85728.4.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.51 (Python 2.2 on FreeBSD/i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <1018019821.85728.4.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu>, Kirk R. Wythers typed: > Why does the FreeBSD default place cdrom and floppy under / rather than > /mnt ? I went ahead and created /zip rather than /mnt/zip to be > consistent... > > Just curious Because /cdrom is easier to type than /mnt/cdrom. I'd be interested in knowing the answer to the opposite question: why do some systems mount cdroms on /mnt/cdrom instead of /cdrom? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message