On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Aldo Foot wrote: >> >> My understanding is that in /media the OS expects to find removable media >> such as usb drives. The /mnt mount point is for nfs and local filesystems. >> Those mount points are sort of "designated" places for specific filesystems. >> >> Please shed some light if I'm wrong. >> ~af >> > My understanding is that /media is used as a mount point for things > that are not found in /etc/fstab, and are detected by HAL. HAL > mounts them there so the the console user can access them. The user > normally can not create directories in /mnt. That a great way of explaining what /media is for. > This is different from automount, where the directories are already > there. Automount mounts the specified file system when someone tries > to access it. Sort of "mount on demand"; meaning df -h will only show a cd or pen drive until the user clicks on it to access it. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
