From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 10 03:17:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A1416A401; Wed, 10 May 2006 03:17:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from tinker.exit.com (tinker.exit.com [206.223.0.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4B6C43D48; Wed, 10 May 2006 03:17:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4A3HpPe000912; Tue, 9 May 2006 20:17:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by realtime.exit.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4A3HoH8043348; Tue, 9 May 2006 20:17:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k4A3Hosg043347; Tue, 9 May 2006 20:17:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) X-Authentication-Warning: realtime.exit.com: frank set sender to frank@exit.com using -f From: Frank Mayhar To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: <1147230589.45319.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1e4841eb0605091838u39a46dfw81cc9f452d9722b6@mail.gmail.com> <1147230589.45319.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Exit Consulting Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 20:17:50 -0700 Message-Id: <1147231070.40623.7.camel@realtime.exit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88/1452/Tue May 9 02:14:00 2006 on tinker.exit.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: arch@freebsd.org, m m Subject: Re: Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: frank@exit.com List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 03:17:52 -0000 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/