Future: fhs 2.3 compliance for fc3

Robert Marcano robert at marcanoonline.com
Wed Mar 31 13:27:16 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 09:03, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 01:15, Shahms King wrote:
> 
> > > /media - all the removable media and silliness there.
> > 
> > And why isn't /mnt adequate for removable media?
> 
> I don't think /mnt has anything wrong with it, but FHS specifies that
> /media is a better name for a removable device and indeed, /media is
> what SuSE uses.

/srv requires the sysadmin to allocate space for the services he or she
will install, and that is a good reason to separate it from /var

/media instead does not requires that because the contents will be
located on removable media, so a symlink to /mnt will solve the
differences with FHS

-- 
Robert Marcano





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