[gentoo-user] Mounting a big drive for stuff - /mnt or /media

[Stroller]

Hi there,

I'm in the process of commissioning a box which has a large hard drive  
on which videos, mp3s & stuff will be stored.

On all my other machines, such drives are mounted at /mnt/space (and a  
second drive at /mnt/morespace)

I have a notion to move to a hierarchy under /media/ - something like / 
media/space or /media/videos or  /media/disk1,  /media/disk2, /media/ 
disk3, ...

I can't remember WHY I came iup with this idea, however.

Googling, I can find more than one message to this list in which I  
assert this intention and state refer to a discussion on this list  
which led to it. However I can't find that previous discussion itself.
http://www.linux-archive.org/gentoo-user/168375-mediatomb-media-server-users-permissions-media-videox.html
http://www.nabble.com/Autofs-or-ivman--td14647701.html

The only thing that springs to mind is that /mnt was originally used  
by system administrators to temporarily mount removable media. I think  
the FHS comes into it. But right now this isn't terribly convincing,  
particularly as I currently expect to be using one BIG volume, so  
there should be no need for more than drive mounted in this way.

Can anyone persuade me or provide other reasons for using /media?

Thanks in advance,

Stroller.