Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD

Frank Mayhar frank at exit.com
Wed May 10 03:17:52 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 23:09 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> /mnt is designed to hold one mount point temporarily (e.g. I want to
> mount an NFS file system to test NFS, or to get at a file
> quickly).  /media differs in that it is a directory to hold multiple
> mount points.  Say I insert a CD, floppy, and USB drive.  All would be
> mounted under /media in directories like /media/floppy, /media/disk,
> and /media/VOLUME (where VOLUME is the label on the CD).

Makes sense, although I am a tad disconcerted, having already a /media
on one of my machines.  One for multimedia content.  Oh, well, I guess I
can call it "mmedia."  Hopefully it won't take too long for me to
retrain my fingers. :-S
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