mount question

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 14:23 -0500, Steve wrote:
> ---- Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote: 
> > > 
> > 
> >  From the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
> > 
> > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/index.html
> 
> That page has not been updated since 2004. Still valid? Apparently, HAL doesn't think so.
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still valid for sure - /media remains the mount point for removable
media
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> That would seem to say that a permanently mouted filesystem such a a Windows partition on a dual boot system should not be mounted in /media since it is not removeable nor should it be mounted in /mnt since it is permanently mounted.
> 
> But then where?
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anywhere you want

mkdir /disk2
mount /dev/sdb1 /disk2

what's the difference? Even if you mount it somewhere, you can still
'bind' mount it elsewhere at the same time (usually better than symlink
- especially when using selinux)

Craig