F8 - upgrading impossible

[Jim Cornette]

Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 11:35 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> As far as I can remember, Linux has always used /mnt/<directory>
>> instead of using /mnt directory for mounting things. 
> 
> Since the term "traditionally" was used, I was thinking more along the
> lines that "traditionally *ix-like systems did this..." as opposed to
> "Fedora does that...", seeing as Fedora is so young it's a bit strange
> to use the word "traditionally" with it.  ;-)
> 
> Going back further into the thread.  Yes, /mnt *can* be used directly.
> But, as always, when you *can* do something, doesn't mean that's the
> only way of doing it, and that it *can* affect what else you're doing
> with it.  *Of* *course* using /mnt directly will usurp anything mounted
> onto a sub-directory in it, beforehand.  But I thought that was as
> obvious as "it'll hurt if I hit my thumb with a hammer"...   ;-)
> 

As far back as RHL 5.2 /mnt/<directory> was used to my knowledge. The 
technical aspects, other than masking any thing mounted on 
/mnt/<directory> if /mnt was used instead was not known by me if it was 
possible. I guess traditionally for me is back to RHL 5.2. Since 
/media/<directory> is the new standard and /mnt is used less frequently 
traditionally probably should not have been selected. Probably stating 
"as far back as I remember" or a similar phrase.

Jim

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