Re: [PLUG] cdrom mounting

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

Gabriel Rosenkoetter
> Ugh. I wince every time I see this /mnt/cdrom Linuxism. It's wrong,
> wrong, wrong. /mnt is meant to be a mount point *itself*, not a
> place to mount things under. It's not that it'd really matter much
> if I came along and mounted something at /mnt when you'd already
> mounted something else at /mnt/cdrom... except that all of a sudden
> you wouldn't be able to see your mount any longer. Maybe just an
> irritation, but maybe tragic if you're using, say, a union-style
> file system, or a loopback mount into /mnt/cdrom, or any variety of
> other situations.

I actually originally learned to mount a cdrom on /cdrom, however things 
and people change.  Linux is different from *BSD or Unix in some ways, 
and that's one of the differences.  Slackware, my distro of choice, 
until recently had /cdrom as the setup of choice, but all too many other 
distros don't and that can be a problem if other software expects to 
find your cdrom at /cdrom.




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