On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 04:32:58PM -0500, Stephanie Daugherty wrote: > FHS 2.3 apparently. They appear to serve mostly the same purpose, but /mnt > is specified as "temporarily mounted filesystems" while /media is specified > as just "removable media". > > Regardless, since the implementation of /media, automounters have tended to > mount stuff there, while things manually mounted have tended to be mounted > in /mnt, presumably avoiding conflict between what the administrator wants > to do and what the automounter wants to do - which is a good precedent to > follow IMHO.
Actually, the difference _does_ matter. Paths under /mnt are made by the sysadmin and thus are secure, paths under /media are created based on untrusted input. These two need at least _some_ namespace disambiguation, and /mnt vs /media serves that purpose. -- A tit a day keeps the vet away. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
