A Question about a change in file system

mikecore · Guru Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 342 Location: Toledo, Ohio

I was installing FedoraCore3 for my brother-InLaw and I notice they no longer use /mnt/cdrom

they have a new DIR called "media" and they list the floppies and cdroms under it

could one of you explaime why they changed this and will Gentoo also be making thus change?

malloc · l33t Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 762

Arch uses the mountpoints on / (eg. /cdrom, /dvd ), it's just a matter of taste really. Afaik /mnt isn't part of the standard file hierarchy of *nix/linux
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wdreinhart · Guru Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 569 Location: 4QFJ12345678

Short answer: it's part of the new filesystem standard.

Long answer: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT

Since Gentoo doesn't set up your fstab automatically, it's up to the user whether or not to use the new /media mountpoints. I do, because that's what gnome-volume-manager expects.