Am Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:41:54 -0600 schrieb C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xtfx.me>:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@linuxaudio.org> wrote:
Wouldn't most users associate /media with cd, dvd etc. ? Seems like on odd name for what systemd uses it for.
for as long as i remember anyway, the DE will often mount stuff there automatically, ergo it's not safe to put manual mount points there. /mnt is specifically reserved for admin, so /mnt/media is safe.
This is not true. If this is what some DEs are doing, than you should file a bug report to the DE's upstream.
under systemd, /media is a tmpfs.
The same for systemd. There's a Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard which says that /media is meant for removable media and /mnt is for temporarily mounted filesystems. Whatever the difference between an optical media and a temporary filesystem may be. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT I know that Lennart Poettering doesn't care much about Linux standards and likes to declare his non working crap as standard. But fortunately he is not a standardization authority. So if a software doesn't follow those FHS you should file a bug report to upstream. And yes, /media is supposed to contain subdirectories for cd, dvd, etc. Nevertheless /media was also invented by SUSE in the past, because originally those optical media was also meant to be mounted to subdirectories of /mnt. Nevertheless meanwhile FHS was changed to include /mnt as well as /media for whatever reasons. Heiko