From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28352 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2004 05:10:21 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 21 Sep 2004 05:10:21 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1C9cuy-0000Uv-Sg for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 05:10:21 +0000 Received: (qmail 27700 invoked by uid 89); 21 Sep 2004 05:10:20 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 17131 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2004 05:10:19 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Joel Konkle-Parker Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:10:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200409192155.40560.luke-jr@utopios.org> <200409200004.03577.luke-jr@utopios.org> <20040920015546.233e8e82@snowdrop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.183.52.17 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040916) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20040920015546.233e8e82@snowdrop.home> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Sender: news Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: any interest in removing /usr/qt and /usr/kde ? X-Archives-Salt: 6a3ac855-2a5b-4e53-896a-c0029e6c1f72 X-Archives-Hash: 2a943a6b3eca1f29ee0f5222ff4c8381 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:03:59 +0000 Luke-Jr wrote: > | Exactly. For a *system administrator* to *temporarily* mount a > | filesystem in. This means 'mount some-temp-filesystem /mnt' > | temporarily, not 'mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom; mount /dev/fd0 > | /mnt/floppy; etc' perminantly.-- > > Why have a specific toplevel for that? No need, just use cwd or $HOME. > Surely you don't think the FHS is thaaaaat silly? By 'temporary' they've > gotta mean 'not always mounted'. Anything else is madness. > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT /media : Mount point for removeable media Purpose This directory contains subdirectories which are used as mount points for removeable media such as floppy disks, cdroms and zip disks. Tip Rationale Historically there have been a number of other different places used to mount removeable media such as /cdrom, /mnt or /mnt/cdrom. Placing the mount points for all removeable media directly in the root directory would potentially result in a large number of extra directories in /. Although the use of subdirectories in /mnt as a mount point has recently been common, it conflicts with a much older tradition of using /mnt directly as a temporary mount point. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [jjk3@msstate.edu] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list