On 2006-03-30, MikeDawg <mikedawg@gmail.com> wrote:
> My question, is where, is this standard originating from?

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) 2.3:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

> Where is the "standard" for the /media and /svc directory coming from?

I guess that "/svc" is a typo, it should be "/svr". Anyway, both "/media"
and "/svr" seem completely useless to me. But some distributions use
"/media" for automounting. The rationale, according to the FHS is:

"Historically there have been a number of other different places used to
mount removeable media such as /cdrom, /mnt or /mnt/cdrom. Placing the
mount points for all removeable media directly in the root directory
would potentially result in a large number of extra directories in /.
Although the use of subdirectories in /mnt as a mount point has recently
been common, it conflicts with a much older tradition of using /mnt
directly as a temporary mount point."

-- Daniel