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Subject: Re: Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD
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>> Since the overall consensus is to add a root directory called /media to
>> accommodate removable media mount points (e.g. those managed by HAL), I
>> have drawn up the following patch.  Since I am a ports/doc committer,
>> could a src committer approve this patch so that I can commit it?
Thanks.
>>
>> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/media.diff
>
> Even though I'm quite reluctant to add root directories in general,
> this one sounds like a sane idea.  The name is generic enough to
> my taste, so we can hope we're not going to need to add other
> directories for that purpose.  Besides, anything that can help us
> catch up a bit on the HAL side is good in my opinion.  So, this
> looks good to me.

My understanding is that such a directory already exists - /mnt
At least this is what "man hier" says about it:
     /mnt/      empty directory commonly used by system administrators as a
temporary mount point
is "temporary" somehow different from "removable" in this case?