Where to mount shared vfat partitions?

[Chong Yu Meng]

On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 08:52 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> > Actually, why do you even have
> > directories with data in /mnt? Although it is possible to use /mnt as a
> > normal directory, I normally use it only for mount points to removable
> > storage -- but, hey, whatever floats your boat.
> 
> As I remember it, that was where all mounts went on Red Hat Linux if
> they didn't fit into the normal scheme, including things like vfat
> partitions shared with other OSes on the same machine. I believe that
> was "suggested" by the early installers, but obviously it's been years
> since I used one of them...
> 
> Basically, you could either have all your mount-points (Debian-style)
> under / (e.g.  /cdrom, /win95) and use /mnt for a "scratch" mount point,
> or you could have all your mount-points under /mnt (e.g. /mnt/cdrom,
> /mnt/win95 and /mnt/misc). (This was before the days of /media, which as
> far as I can tell was an attempt at a compromise that left /mnt free but
> stopped you having too many folders directly in /).
> 
> Googling /mnt/windows site:redhat.com gives official Red Hat
> documentation (including one for RHEL 4) suggesting that this is the
> place to put mount points.
> 
> Hope this helps,

Thanks ! That clears up a lot of my thinking. 

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