Use of /media instead of /mnt

[James Mckenzie]

>Anyone,

>Can anyone explain why the switch to /media instead of /mnt
>In my mind, media is something you put into a device to read or write,
>/mnt contains mount points where devices can be mounted to access media.
>Am I just not getting the logic behind the /media change?

/media is a recent addition to the File Hierarchy System (Standard?) which describes which directory does what.  /mnt was for temporary, non-formatted systems, such as tape drives.  /media is for devices which are expected to be formatted with their own file system, such as floppy drives, external hard drives, cdrom/dvd-rom, etc.



James McKenzie
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