ben wrote: > i agree. it was one of the pleasures of discovering debian to find that > something i had always considered redundant was not employed in the debian > filesystem. why shouldn't floppies and other removable media be visible at > the root level?
Conversly, what is so important about a floppy or zip drive or CD that it needs such a short global path to access it? I tend to mount such devices wherever is appropriate in my current working area -- 'mkdir ./floppy; sudo mount /dev/fd0 floppy; cp myfiles ./floppy/' One perhaps little known thing about debian's /floppy and /cdrom directories BTW is that if you rmdir them, they will not be put back by later upgrades of base-files. So if you really dislike them (and/or have a system like mine that does not have a floppy, or cdrom), you can get rid of them easily. -- see shy jo
