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On 08/05/2009 05:12 PM, Stroller wrote: |
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> Hi there, |
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> I'm in the process of commissioning a box which has a large hard drive |
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> on which videos, mp3s & stuff will be stored. |
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> On all my other machines, such drives are mounted at /mnt/space (and a |
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> second drive at /mnt/morespace) |
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> I have a notion to move to a hierarchy under /media/ - something like |
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> /media/space or /media/videos or /media/disk1, /media/disk2, |
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> /media/disk3, ... |
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> I can't remember WHY I came iup with this idea, however... |
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Gnome, for example, automatically mounts removable media on /media. |
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I don't know if that default can even be changed, and I never bothered |
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to find out. |
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You are right that /mnt is a very old unix standard directory and new |
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fangled applications like auto-mounting desktops (i.e. gnome) should |
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not be messing with it because some older app may come along and mount |
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right on top of your already mounted filesystem. Very confusing! |
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Using the good old SWAG method, I'd say that the much newer OpenDesktop |
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group probably designated /media as the newfangled replacement for /mnt. |
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Anyone know for sure? |
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If you plan to mount your data partition (or whatever) so that it will |
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always be in exactly the same place, then you should create a new mount |
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point of your own and mount your partition there using /etc/fstab. |
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Where you put the new mount point depends on whether the filesystem is |
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to be available to all users of the machine, or just you. |
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