Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 20:17:50 -0700 From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, m m <needacoder@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD Message-ID: <1147231070.40623.7.camel@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <1147230589.45319.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1e4841eb0605091838u39a46dfw81cc9f452d9722b6@mail.gmail.com> <1147230589.45319.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 23:09 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > /mnt is designed to hold one mount point temporarily (e.g. I want to > mount an NFS file system to test NFS, or to get at a file > quickly). /media differs in that it is a directory to hold multiple > mount points. Say I insert a CD, floppy, and USB drive. All would be > mounted under /media in directories like /media/floppy, /media/disk, > and /media/VOLUME (where VOLUME is the label on the CD). Makes sense, although I am a tad disconcerted, having already a /media on one of my machines. One for multimedia content. Oh, well, I guess I can call it "mmedia." Hopefully it won't take too long for me to retrain my fingers. :-S -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/
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