Re: newbe's question about mount points

2000-08-02 Thread David Z Maze
Ezequiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: E> I'm new to Debian, and I've noticed that in this distro /floppy and E> /cdrom are not placed inside /mnt as in RedHat. Can someone explain E> me why? "Because" and "it's been that way historically" are probably the best answers. Note that this is trivial t

newbe's question about mount points

2000-08-02 Thread Ezequiel
I'm new to Debian, and I've noticed that in this distro /floppy and /cdrom are not placed inside /mnt as in RedHat. Can someone explain me why ? Isn't /mnt the directory for temporary mount points in most UNIX systems as the Linux Filesystem Structure describes it in http://www.pathname.com/fhs/1.2