From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 22:45:49 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F4016A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:45:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AECA743D48 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:45:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j1FMjm0C008466; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:45:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:45:47 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: RW Message-ID: <20050215224547.GB75661@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200502152242.28365.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502152242.28365.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux apps and /mnt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:45:49 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 15), RW said: > I just mounted a device at /mnt/t and tried to access a file from linux > realplayer. It couldn't see anything under /mnt at all, it seems that it's > actually seeing /compat/linux/mnt. > > Why does /compat/linux/mnt exist? Is there some serious problem of having > linux apps see /mnt (like they see the real /home, and any non-standard > top-level directories)? An what's the best way to handle this? Most likely it's because one of the rpms making up linux_base creates it. Just rmdir it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com