Mounting local drives

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Tue Jul 21 18:50:22 UTC 2009


Ray Parrish wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:

>> That's fine - but for most people, /mnt is a convenient place for a
>> temporary, test, mount.  I'm not at all sure it's a good place to put a
>> swap file.
>>   
> It is according to the Ubuntu Swap FAQ, as that's where it tells you to
> put it. 8-)
> 
I can't really see it causing problems, but it's contrary to the Debian File 
System Hierarchy, as I pointed out to Oli.  Obviously the Swap FAQ writer 
hasn't ready the FSH standard.
-- 
derek






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