From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MYzbj-0004Sa-27 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:49:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54BB5E0612; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 09:49:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f177.google.com (mail-yx0-f177.google.com [209.85.210.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36F06E0612 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 09:49:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe7 with SMTP id 7so825536yxe.32 for ; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:49:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8nBu5/x1r0tgauuC62//NtqqKXevcwK811V8scwwBuQ=; b=BrWLTYaWMCtNGQR9V4HNhyqaYnz1EWdQjKqzO3Pa6vWBNFMSLpbIzAJhypXvXQ0rXF 0zPHQNXD6nkznJdZZGznBdpwwP39eHhg9cBH0F6nNJJN7avpP7Wv11adRkXsEeIxKiy9 s4W6xysgkXjfMUJfswd3wZaM7xG0yD5we7Kmg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Yt8iG+QDvZzB8q5c4ymSeZhTDC2+U7jGPIgP15rzgZV6b+fou5d0FfqCYBfQPbIlim eZru0+Dqt/MDaQp2ttac1OnkkdfwzBiIT4sNdWKJbcVib/CTCwIS9psxpXbyqJF+yDgU 1e1p52/hS1AQzaGHrAdQzhHT+8MTjJm4dzAG0= Received: by 10.90.32.9 with SMTP id f9mr4788456agf.103.1249552196892; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:49:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.164.122? (r164h122.dixie-net.com [64.89.164.122]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 26sm2732407aga.64.2009.08.06.02.49.53 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A7AA73E.8000508@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:49:50 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090628 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a big drive for stuff - /mnt or /media References: <5A4177CF-94D0-45F0-9842-B4943FE95E57@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5A4177CF-94D0-45F0-9842-B4943FE95E57@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9b1c5319-ce15-4b77-a5cb-81ea273a5db1 X-Archives-Hash: c0b6a3b4a9b594181c491c62b2c7146f Stroller wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm in the process of commissioning a box which has a large hard drive > on which videos, mp3s & stuff will be stored. > > On all my other machines, such drives are mounted at /mnt/space (and a > second drive at /mnt/morespace) > > I have a notion to move to a hierarchy under /media/ - something like > /media/space or /media/videos or /media/disk1, /media/disk2, > /media/disk3, ... > > I can't remember WHY I came iup with this idea, however. > > Googling, I can find more than one message to this list in which I > assert this intention and state refer to a discussion on this list > which led to it. However I can't find that previous discussion itself. > http://www.linux-archive.org/gentoo-user/168375-mediatomb-media-server-users-permissions-media-videox.html > > http://www.nabble.com/Autofs-or-ivman--td14647701.html > > The only thing that springs to mind is that /mnt was originally used > by system administrators to temporarily mount removable media. I think > the FHS comes into it. But right now this isn't terribly convincing, > particularly as I currently expect to be using one BIG volume, so > there should be no need for more than drive mounted in this way. > > Can anyone persuade me or provide other reasons for using /media? > > Thanks in advance, > > Stroller. > > > You can create a mount point and mount the drive where ever you want. I created the mount point /data on my system and mounted a drive to it. I store my wallpapers, some rarely used documents, owners manuals and things like that there. Point is, Linux doesn't care where you put it, just put it where you want it and can find it. Dale :-) :-)