Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a big drive for stuff - /mnt or /media

[Roy Wright <roy@wright.org>]

On Aug 6, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Dale wrote:

> Stroller wrote:
>> Can anyone persuade me or provide other reasons for using /media?
>>

I'm running 3 systems that have media drives for my home theater.   
What I did was to mount the local volume on /var/media.  Then used  
autofs to mount the nfs shared volumes under /media/auto.  Finally I  
symbolically linked each volume to /media.

Abridged example:

royw-gentoo:
/var/media  => mounted lvm volume
/media/auto/xbmc => nfs://xbmc.local/media
/media/royw-gento => /var/media
/media/xbmc => /media/auto/xbmc

xbmc:
/var/media  => mounted lvm volume
/media/auto/royw-gentoo => nfs://royw-gentoo.local/media
/media/xbmc => /var/media
/media/royw-gentoo => /media/auto/royw-gentoo

Now on either machine I can reference /media/xbmc or /media/royw-gentoo

Also each media volume uses the LinuxMCE directory scheme:
public
+ data
++ audio
++ documents
++ pictures
++ videos
local
user

Have fun,
Roy