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On Sunday 19 September 2004 11:06 pm, Thomas Weidner wrote: |
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> Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> > IIRC, having /mnt as anything but an empty directory conflicts with the |
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> > FHS also. Gentoo uses /mnt as FHS's /media |
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> /mnt : Mount point for a temporarily mounted filesystem |
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> Purpose |
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> This directory is provided so that the system administrator may |
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> temporarily mount a filesystem as needed. The content of this directory |
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> is a local issue and should not affect the manner in which any program |
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> is run. |
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> This directory must not be used by installation programs: a suitable |
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> temporary directory not in use by the system must be used instead. |
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Exactly. For a *system administrator* to *temporarily* mount a filesystem in. |
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This means 'mount some-temp-filesystem /mnt' temporarily, not |
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'mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom; mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy; etc' perminantly. |
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Luke-Jr |
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