The motivation for moving out of /media was that with /media any user can access the filesystem that your user mounts. Which obviously is highly undesirable on multi-user systems. Originally we wanted to use $XDG_USER_RUNTIME_DIR and for a while we did that, see
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/udisks/commit/?id=502fb5b7810afb50e48354e6b4d1781d07f79e10 but shortly determined that it was racy (it's never a good idea for a system daemon to write to a directory controlled by untrusted users) so we ended up using /run/media instead: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/udisks/commit/?id=502fb5b7810afb50e48354e6b4d1781d07f79e10 (OTOH, if you really want all users to access a device, you simply just add an /etc/fstab entry. We now have API in udisks and UI in GNOME Disks for this.) > violating the expectations of experienced users and possibly > breaking user scripts / symlinks. Just FYI, it's pretty fragily to rely on udisks just this or that name in /media in the first place so I don't think any "experienced user" would do this. If you need a predictable mount point, you need to use /etc/fstab or mount the device yourself through another mechanism. Or, better, fix your software and/or scripts to figure out the mount point itself by looking at things like /proc/self/mountinfo use lsblk(8) or whatever. > Please fix udisks to move its mounts back to /media." There is nothing to "fix" here so closing NOTABUG. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1020759 Title: /run/media is an unnecessary divergence from the FHS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/udisks/+bug/1020759/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
