On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
<mikkel(a)infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
Aldo Foot wrote:
>
> My understanding is that in /media the OS expects to find removable media
> such as usb drives. The /mnt mount point is for nfs and local filesystems.
> Those mount points are sort of "designated" places for specific
filesystems.
>
> Please shed some light if I'm wrong.
> ~af
>
My understanding is that /media is used as a mount point for things
that are not found in /etc/fstab, and are detected by HAL. HAL
mounts them there so the the console user can access them. The user
normally can not create directories in /mnt.
That a great way of explaining what /media is for.
This is different from automount, where the directories are already
there. Automount mounts the specified file system when someone tries
to access it.
Sort of "mount on demand"; meaning df -h will only show a cd or pen drive
until the user clicks on it to access it.
~af