On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, David Wright wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > > > Peter Prohaska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > 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. > > > > The floppy drive not used during installation? Depends on how you > > install. > > I use floppy installation but I don't use /floppy. I assume the floppies > don't actually get mounted during installation, so you have to type /dev/fd0.
As there is a directory called "/var/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy" I anticipate the floppies to be mounted during install process. > But I do like /floppy as I don't normally cd there, but I can type /f<tab> > and that's it. I'm careful to preserve unique first letters for all the > frequently used top level directories. In fact, only /bin, /boot, /lib and > /var don't work this way (thanks to lost+found and the kernel link). But therefore most of them ( at least the important subdirs ) are privileged to get listed in an enviornment variable ;) thanks for your comments, peter. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
