Re: Arklinux and FHS and LSB

Hi,

Am Freitag, 9. Juli 2004 09:43 schrieb Luke Hebert:
> Err ?, To my knowledege /mnt is the standard Location to mount Removeable
> media and user mount points. Every Distrobution I have used in the last few
> months use that location. So Im a bit confused here.
>

As I said, "historical". ;-)

Look at the FHS spec:

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

IMHO other distributions already switched to this scheme. :-)

Maybe, I simply used to have /mnt to temporarily mount other filesystems.

Hendrik

> Hendrik Muhs wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am currently switching from another Linux Distribution to Ark Linux.
> >
> > I do not like the non-standard filesystem hierarchy. For example: Is
> > there any reason why cdrom, floppy, etc. is under /mnt ?
> >
> > Or does this only have historical reasons (old Redhat standard) ?
> >
> > I can look into this stuff and trying to get Ark Linux  closer to
> > standards like FHS (Filesystem hierarchy standard) and maybe LSB (Linux
> > Standard Base).
> >
> > (I am not an arklinux developer yet, so I would begin with making patches
> > and send it to the responsible people)
> >
> > But before I waste my time, I this is ok for you? Or do you have other
> > plans?
> >
> > Sincerly,
> >
> > Hendrik
> > P.S. sorry for my bad english

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