| gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:48:12 -0400 |
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 12:38:45PM -0400, LeRoy Cressy wrote: > Also, if you want to you can either fix it yourself by making a > directory /cdrom and editing /etc/fstab accordingly or by creating a > symlink /cdrom -> /mnt/cdrom The latter is not a fix. The point is that I am used to /mnt being just what it claims to be: a mount point. No sym-linking it to it will do any good at all. More important is RedHat's (typical) drive to do things they think will be useful and, in the process, break de facto standards that Unix admins have come to rely upon. This both irritates us who know better and gets people who don't used to something that will be different when the move to another system (and then they'll whine at someone like me about there not being a /mnt/cdrom or, worse, *make* one as a junior sysadmin on a system on which I'm the senior sysadmin, and that will *really* piss me off). I would care less if RedHat had done away with /mnt entirely (though that wouldn't really be necessary) and created, say, /disks/<foo>, it's the fact that they took something recognizable and changed it subtly but importantly that irritates me. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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