From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 5 09:06:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07166 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:06:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles246.castles.com [208.214.165.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07152 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:06:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA03319; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:04:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808051604.JAA03319@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: sgkmail@kleenex.apk.net cc: Mike Smith , Chris Hill , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install *actually* friendly In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Aug 1998 07:06:16 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 09:04:53 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > You don't have to. > > > > # mount /dev/fd0a /mnt > > > > works just fine. > > > > This brings up something I was curious about. I'm used to having a > /mnt/floppy and a /mnt/cdrom, as well as other removable media being off > of /mnt. (I also place shared partitions there like /mnt/dos or /mnt/ntfs) > > Is there any particular reason why FreeBSD uses /cdrom and a plain /mnt? > Or is it just the way it worked out? :-) /mnt is the "traditional" scratch mountpoint. What you're "used to" is the Linux "not invented here" approach. They never understood what "/mnt" was for, so felt free to abuse it. Practically, it's all just personal preference. What we use is just someone else's personal preference. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message