Re: Arklinux and FHS and LSB

On Friday 09 July 2004 03:43 am, Luke Hebert wrote:
> 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.
>

LSB 1.3 demands FHS 2.2 compliance, which in turn does not care too much 
for /mnt or /media.

However, the upcoming LSB 2.0 [1] demands FHS 2.3 [2][3] compliance, which 
states that:

/mnt : Mount point for a temporarily mounted filesystem (notice how filesystem 
is singular)
/media : Mount point for removeable media

the relevant sections are:

[1] http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/booksets/LSB-Core/LSB-Core/execenvfhs.html
[2] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT
[3] 
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MNTMOUNTPOINTFORATEMPORARILYMOUNT


Personal opinion:  I've always used /mnt to have lots of subdirs where I would 
mount things, doing differently would feel pretty weird, heh

Sunny Dubey

> 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