Re: Are /cdrom and /floppy really forbidden by policy?
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 05:23:20PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 06:59:51PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > I generally prefer not to have /floppy and /cdrom personally. I place
> > these under /mnt/floppy, /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/zip, etc. It seems to me that
> > /mnt is more appropiate for random mountpoints not part of the regular
> > filesystem than is /.. Just my opinion of course.
>
> /mnt is for temporary mounts; I do not consider /cdrom to be a temporary
> mount, myself. IMHO, /mnt/* is an ugly Red Hatism.
/mnt is *only* for temporary mounts, and should be left into local sysadm
domain, as it is for /usr/local, it has already been said.
I agree that populating / with "random" mountpoints (what for who has
two CD drivers, or two floppyes, and maybe a zip/jazz?) is ugly.
I would prefere to use /var/mnt/* for this purpose.
It mimics the distinction between /tmp and /var/tmp , and /var is
warranteed to be local and writable.
fab
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