on Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:32:54PM -0500, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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.
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