Patch for adding /media to FreeBSD

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 21:38 -0400, m m wrote:
> >> Since the overall consensus is to add a root directory
> called /media to
> >> accommodate removable media mount points (e.g. those managed by
> HAL), I
> >> have drawn up the following patch.  Since I am a ports/doc
> committer, 
> >> could a src committer approve this patch so that I can commit it?
> Thanks.
> >>
> >> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/media.diff
> >
> > Even though I'm quite reluctant to add root directories in general,
> > this one sounds like a sane idea.  The name is generic enough to
> > my taste, so we can hope we're not going to need to add other 
> > directories for that purpose.  Besides, anything that can help us
> > catch up a bit on the HAL side is good in my opinion.  So, this
> > looks good to me.
> 
> My understanding is that such a directory already exists - /mnt 
> At least this is what "man hier" says about it:
>      /mnt/      empty directory commonly used by system administrators
> as a temporary mount point
> is "temporary" somehow different from "removable" in this case? 

/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).

Joe

-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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