Mounting local drives

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On Di, 2009-07-21 at 15:06 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Oliver Grawert wrote:
> 
> > you should note though that /media has been created and is used for
> > automounting pluggable media. the right place to do system wide mounts
> > are subdirectories in /mnt.
> 
> I hate to contradict you Oli, but that's not what the Debian FHS says:
> 
>   /mnt/ 
>   Temporarily mounted filesystems
> 
> (http://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard)
> 
> Which is why I told Ray I wasn't comfortable with the use of /mnt for his 
> swap file.  I don't think mounting a filesystem from fstab is any more 
> correct in /mnt than /media.
well, i guess its a matter of upstream vs debian FHS documentation (and
actually about personal preference, indeed you can also create some
other unrelated dir or go with /media if you feel like), the upstream
doc [1] is a bit more detailed on this:

...
/mnt : Mount point for a temporarily mounted filesystem
Purpose
This directory is provided so that the system administrator may
temporarily mount a filesystem as needed. The content of this directory
is a local issue and should not affect the manner in which any program
is run.

This directory must not be used by installation programs: a suitable
temporary directory not in use by the system must be used instead.

...

(i'm specifically referring to "the content of this directory is a local
issue")

anyway, what i initially wanted to point out is the potential breakage
you might see by (ab)using /media for permanent mounts. the mountpoint
names used are pretty generic and it can easily happen that a device
labeled with such a name gets automounted. i *personally* wouldnt put
any permanent mounts in /media ever :) but hey, its linux, anyone can do
whatever he/she wants with it :)

ciao
	oli

[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

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