[ILUG] apt-cdrom q

[Rick Moen]

begin Paul J Collins quotation:

> The reason Debian uses /cdrom is that the FHS, which Debian tries to
> adhere to, specifies that /mnt itself is to be used as a mount point.

I'm not sure I buy your premise.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.1/fhs-3.7.html includes:  "This directory
is provided so that the system administrator may temporarily mount
filesystems as needed.  The content of this directory is a local
issue...."  I see nothing there that precludes having mount directories
within mnt, and putting /mnt/cdrom there.

On the other fin, http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.1/fhs-3.html makes
crystal-clear that "introducing a new subdirectory of the root
filesystem is prohibited" beyond the following:

"/"
bin
boot
dev
etc
home
lib
mnt
opt
root
sbin
tmp
usr
var

It seems to me that Debian persists in using /cdrom and /floppy
_despite_ the FHS.

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