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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
-- 
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