[arch-general] Softlink /media

[Leonid Isaev]

On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 17:56:22 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> Am I the only one mounting e.g. an USB stick by the desktop and then
> using a terminal emulation?

No... I have never even started my thunar :)

> 
> Is /media still needed by anything? If not I would prefer a softlink
> media -> /run/media.

Your email client is Evolution 3.4.2 which probably means you use gnome3 with
gvfs and udisks{,2}. For the rest of us /media is still a valid place to
dynamically create mountpoints. For instance, pmount uses only /media.

> 
> Hm?
> 
> There's no big difference between typing
> 
> # ls /run/media/spinymouse/INTENSO
> 
> and
> 
> # ls /media/spinymouse/INTENSO
> 
> I wonder if it's possible to use $HOME for the softlink?
> 
> IMO an USB stick etc. should be auto-mounted at /media, I prefer to
> type /media/INTENSO only. For now I added the softlink
> media -> /run/media.

Well... First, automounting is a serious security hole. Nothing should be
automounted unless explicitly permitted by the user. Second, adding softlinks
is not a good idea IMHO because /media belongs to core/filesystem and your
modifications will most likely to disappear on update. If you really don't
like /run/media -- try bind-mounting it to /media in fstab.

> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 
> 
> 



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