Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 23:16:20 -0400 From: "m m" <needacoder@gmail.com> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD Message-ID: <1e4841eb0605092016r701e9bb3uc3e02dbd3e0ebf6a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1147230589.45319.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1e4841eb0605091838u39a46dfw81cc9f452d9722b6@mail.gmail.com> <1147230589.45319.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On 5/9/06, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> wrote: > > /mnt is designed to hold one mount point temporarily (e.g. I want to > mount an NFS file system to test NFS, or to get at a file > quickly). /media differs in that it is a directory to hold multiple > mount points. Say I insert a CD, floppy, and USB drive. All would be > mounted under /media in directories like /media/floppy, /media/disk, > and /media/VOLUME (where VOLUME is the label on the CD). > Thanks - that does clear it up, however... It seems less intrusive (/ already has too much in there) and in my opinion better name match to use /mnt/temp for "temporary mount" and /mnt/floppy and /mnt/disk and /mnt/VOLUME, etc for "other" mount points... Since you're changing things anyway, this seems like a better choice - plus it has the benefit of being "backward compatible" without introducing more / directories.
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