Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 09:04:53 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: sgkmail@kleenex.apk.net Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Chris Hill <jchill@dgsys.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly Message-ID: <199808051604.JAA03319@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Aug 1998 07:06:16 EDT." <Pine.LNX.3.96.980805070202.13889A-100000@kleenex.apk.net>
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> > > On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > You don't have to. > > > > # mount /dev/fd0a /mnt > > > > works just fine. > > > > This brings up something I was curious about. I'm used to having a > /mnt/floppy and a /mnt/cdrom, as well as other removable media being off > of /mnt. (I also place shared partitions there like /mnt/dos or /mnt/ntfs) > > Is there any particular reason why FreeBSD uses /cdrom and a plain /mnt? > Or is it just the way it worked out? :-) /mnt is the "traditional" scratch mountpoint. What you're "used to" is the Linux "not invented here" approach. They never understood what "/mnt" was for, so felt free to abuse it. Practically, it's all just personal preference. What we use is just someone else's personal preference. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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