Partitions in /media/

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 07:21:15 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:

> On Monday 03 April 2006 06:38, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > hi all
> > I was wondering if there is a particular reason for partitions to
> > be moved into /media/. Anyone know?
> > I remember when /media was made to move the media *away* from the
> > partitions, but now it seems to be that the partitions are simply
> > moving *back in* - this time in a new directory.
> 
> According to FHS, /media provides mount points for removable media 
> like memory sticks and cdroms - anything that tends to be mounted and 
> unmounted in a session
> /mnt is retained as mount points that tend to remain mounted until 
> shutdown - like shared data folders etc etc
> 
> The reason is for convenience as /mnt can get a bit cluttered

Hmm. I have in /media (by default on install as far as I can
remember) "/media/hda1" and "/media/hda7" - both of which are on the same
hard drive as / .  These don't seem to fit the definition of "removable"...

All the entries in /mnt are ones I made myself ( actually NFS shares )



Peter

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