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On Monday 20 September 2004 12:55 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:03:59 +0000 Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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> | Exactly. For a *system administrator* to *temporarily* mount a |
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> | filesystem in. This means 'mount some-temp-filesystem /mnt' |
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> | temporarily, not 'mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom; mount /dev/fd0 |
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> | /mnt/floppy; etc' perminantly.-- |
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> Why have a specific toplevel for that? No need, just use cwd or $HOME. |
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> Surely you don't think the FHS is thaaaaat silly? |
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If the LSB can be silly enough to require RPM, why can't the FHS be silly |
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enough to require a silly toplevel? |
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> By 'temporary' they've gotta mean 'not always mounted'. |
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And they do... However, the mount point is /mnt, not /mnt/* |
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Also, on many systems, /mnt/cdrom etc *are* always mounted ... as |
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supermount. :) |
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> Anything else is madness. |
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No comment. |
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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Utopios |
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http://utopios.org/ |
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