Hard Drives mounting icon and formating

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 18:58, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > You want to use one of those for mp3's, so the time-honoured
> > way to do that is to mount it at the directory /media/mp3/ (it
> > doesn;t have to be called mp3 - the name is up to you).
>
> "Time honoured"?  I never had a /media directory until I switched
> to Ubuntu.  :-)  The old-timers use /mnt (and even that's a little
> new-fangled). :-)

hehe. It's relatively new (3 years?), now part of the FHS as an 
advised but optional mount point. SuSE (partly) forced it in over 
protest from some distros :-)

The definition is that removable media goes in /media and permanent 
arb mounts go in /mnt. The reasoning is that /mnt was getting 
cluttered.

Do I take it that you like to find your cdrom at /cdrom then? ;-)

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Alan McKinnon
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