On Friday 02 April 2004 11:40, Matthew Miller wrote:
The FHS actually gives the rationalization: having mount points as subdirectories under /mnt conflicts with an allegedly widespread practice of using /mnt itself as a temporary mountpoint.
Alleged. Thats just it. I haven't ran across anybody who uses Linux that uses /mnt as a mountpoint. Everybody I've talked to and worked with will create their own temp dir under /mnt and mount things there.