On Wednesday 24 November 2004 10:32, Steve Fink wrote: > Anyone, > > Can anyone explain why the switch to /media instead of /mnt > Standardization is coming to an OS near you.... Here are some handy links on the subject. Regards, Mike Klinke ======================================= http://sourceforge.net/projects/freestandards/. Filesystem Hierarchy Standard This standard consists of a set of requirements and guidelines for file and directory placement under UNIX-like operating systems. The guidelines are intended to support interoperability of applications, system administration tools, development tools, and scripts as well as greater uniformity of documentation for these systems. ======================================= /media : Mount point for removeable media Purpose link to additional info... http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT This directory contains subdirectories which are used as mount points for removeable media such as floppy disks, cdroms and zip disks. ======================================= /mnt : Mount point for a temporarily mounted filesystem Purpose link to additional info... http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MNTMOUNTPOINTFORATEMPORARILYMOUNT This directory is provided so that the system administrator may temporarily mount a filesystem as needed. The content of this directory is a local issue and should not affect the manner in which any program is run.
