no floppy dir in /media ?
Michal Jaegermann
michal at harddata.com
Mon Mar 13 08:21:28 UTC 2006
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:50:24AM +0100, Larry tb wrote:
>
> The problem i had, was to guess this new command. I often work at shell,
> and so... Here is my problem :
> root at ws044 ~]# mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
> mount: mount point /media/floppy does not exist
> [root at ws044 ~]#
>
> Of course the possibility/necessity is to create a /media/floppy, or
> even /mnt/floppy. BUT within fc4 it was auto created during installation.
There is no /media/floppy because 'gnome-mount/gnome-umount' creates
and deletes these mount points and if you happen to have
/media/floppy, regardless if currently in use or not, then it will
be _not_ reused and /media/floppy-1, and if the last one is stuck
for whatever reason then /media/floppy-2 will show up and so on.
I do not like very much that design as, among other things, it is
obviously lacking in robustnes. If anything goes wrong you are
ending up with a mess in /media/ which only root can clean up even
if non-root processes were responsible for it. This is the next
thing which requires "special handling" if you try to have /
read-only. Old user habits and lessons learned were not taken in a
consideration too. Moreover you have to substitute your best guess
for a documentation. But at the moment things are like they are.
Mcihal
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