Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Fri May 12 02:24:18 UTC 2006


On Thursday 11 May 2006 15:33, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2006 10:10:22 -0300
>
> "Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez" <rnsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/10/06, Florent Thoumie <flz at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > The main idea behind using /media is to reduce the porting efforts,
> > > read Marcus' posts.
> > >
> > > PS: This really is bikeshedding.
> >
> > I completely agree -- that's why (I wrote that) I don't have strong
> > objections.  I may be misusing /mnt for ages.  :)
>
> We should just change the wording everywhere to "/mnt is there
> so users can create directories underneath.  These directories
> may then be used as mount points for various devices."

It's not just changing the text, but behavior that has been hard-wired into 
FreeBSD users all over the planet for the past N years.

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