On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:42:01 +1100, Grant wrote:

>>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."
>
> I been happy with /mnt/hd for casual partitions (including external HDD),
> /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/zip for years, at least its optional change proposed for
> Slackware. Nothing stops me using /mnt as casual mountpoint either, so
> what if the subdirectories under /mnt are 'hidden' for a little while?
>
> Using /media for casual mounts could be argued to have the same problem,
> say one wants to mount their camera and download / write images direct
> to cdrom / USB stick / CompactFlash? Same issue, different mountpoint
> names.

The (Slackware-based) STX distro uses the belt-and-braces approach. It
mounts USB keys under /media/sda1 (say) as well as /media/pendrive
simultaneously.

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