Hard Drives mounting icon and formating

[Derek Broughton]

Alan McKinnon wrote:

> 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? ;-)
> 
Not at all.  My CD is at /media/cdrom.  I don't even use /mnt.  But I do
remember Unix days when /mnt was a non-standard directory.
-- 
derek