Hi, Richard: You may as well use /media instead of /mnt. I think it makes no decisive difference for your purpose.
The following discussion wanders away from the request for help into the field of best practices with system administration: I quoted: > > > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MNTMOUNTPOINTFORATEMPORARILYMOUNT > > "/mnt : Mount point for a temporarily mounted filesystem Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Sounds clear : *a* *temporarily* mounted filesystem. Clear only until you read on further "This directory is provided so that the system administrator may temporarily mount a filesystem as needed. The content of this directory is a local issue and should not affect the manner in which any program is run." What if the admin needs to temporarily mount two filesystems ? Why should the _directory_ and not the _mounted filesystem_ contain something ? I read two conflicting models from both specs. LFH leans to /mnt/*, whereas FHS leans to /mnt. Obviously a clear word was not intended back in 2004. (I drag with me a /mnt directory with entrails since last century. So i cannot even tell what Debian installs.) On my own systems i use the /mnt/* model, because it does not interfere with /media, where the automats are working. Have a nice day :) Thomas
