Re: /cdrom

Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 12:56:15PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
>>     
>>> I would prefer using /mnt/cdrom instead of creating another top-level
>>> directory. Especially as there might be more such mountpoints to be
>>> added (dvd, floppy).
>>>       
>> This would contradict hier(7), and my proposal does not focus on that.
>>     
>
> Ah, ok. What about introducing /media according to the FHS, then?
> It says: "Historically there have been a number of other different places
> used to mount removeable media such as /cdrom, /mnt or /mnt/cdrom.
> Placing the mount points for all removeable media directly in the root
> directory would potentially result in a large number of extra
> directories in /."
> (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT)
>
> Pavel
>   

Any reason not to setup an amd config for these directories?  ("too much 
more complicated than /etc/fstab"?)
If we want to make things convinient, "cd /cdrom" is certainly easier 
than "mount /cdrom; cd /cdrow; ...; umount /cdrom"

eric