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Subject: Re: Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD
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On 5/9/06, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> 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).
>

Thanks - that does clear it up, however...   It seems less intrusive (/
already has too much in there) and in my opinion better name match to use
/mnt/temp for "temporary mount" and /mnt/floppy and /mnt/disk and
/mnt/VOLUME, etc for "other" mount points...  Since you're changing things
anyway, this seems like a better choice - plus it has the benefit of being
"backward compatible" without introducing more / directories.