On 14-Jan-98 Peter Prohaska wrote: > > Hi all! > > Please dont flamme me for that unimportant question. But I was wondering, > why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. > When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in > /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x shorties nor > used during installation I can't see why it lives on the root. > > just interrested, > peter.
It's whatever suits your taste. I have directories /A: /C: and /D: for mounting msdos floppy & partitions on: helps the DOSsers to feels at home! (and yes, the colon is part of the name). Put entries in /etc/fstab, a floppy in the drive, and people can learn to "mount /A:" very easily. Cheers, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Ted Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 15-Jan-98 Time: 02:33:18 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
