On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:41:30AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
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.
Hmmm....
Maybe I shouldn't make a fool of myself in public ;) but I used to, at some point in the past, use /mnt itself as a mountpoint. However, that was several years ago; nowadays I create subdirectories in /mnt like most other Linux users.
Using /mnt directly is often done on other Unix-like operating systems, so anybody still doing that today is probably coming over from another Unix-like OS. (For instance, I'm logged into a Solaris 8 box in another xterm, and I just checked if /mnt there has subdirectories. It doesn't.)
-Barry K. Nathan barryn@pobox.com