Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 23:38 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote: >> I believe the /mnt directory cannot be used directly though I know of >> no reason it would be excluded from direct usage. I always created a >> directory sub to /mnt because of traditional usage of /mnt. > > Going from what I've read, what you've described is the opposite of the > traditional use of /mnt. Traditional usage being to mount a whole > drive, or partition, directly onto /mnt. > > Either way should work, anyway. > As far as I can remember, Linux has always used /mnt/<directory> instead of using /mnt directory for mounting things. More recently, the mount points used have been split. Things that are mounted by HAL are mounted on /media/<directory> with <directory> being created/deleted as required by HAL. /mnt/<directory> is usually reserved for temporary mounts that are listed in /etc/fstab, or are mounted from the command line using the mount command. I normally have a couple of mount points in there for things like loop-mounting .iso images. Before the widespread use of HAL, and the use of automount, it was standard to have /mnt/floppy, and /mnt/cdrom. If you have directories in /mnt, you will lose the use of them if you mount something on /mnt. You will also find that most rescue CDs warn you NOT to mount anything on /mnt, but to create a mount point in /mnt and use that. I am not sure about the current live CDs, but in the past, they have also had this warning. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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