gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:35:43 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] cdrom mounting 

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:38:22AM -0400, Art Clemons wrote:
> 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.

Linux isn't different, RedHat is. (Debian, for instance, does this
Right.)

If it's not going to be used in the historical, de facto-standard
way to use /mnt, don't call it /mnt. It's that simple.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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