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Re: couple of gripes
by terracotta on Friday 27/Oct/2006, @05:23
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Why do you insist on mounting the stuff you mount manually in /mnt (or in /mount as someone else here posted?), while you can mount it in /media, that's what that folder was created for I thought, the name of /media sais a lot more than /mnt or /mount to non-technical people, and it's not hard to find out for technical people. No usability is given up and things have become a lot more clear. In konqueror you can still access the *hidden* files by entering the path in case you need to dive into the hierarchy.
(ok, I don't understand why typing /usr or /mnt in the file dialog doesn't work anymore, it's clearly something that should be enabled, just like in konqueror, but generally IMHO this solution is great). |
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Re: couple of gripes
by borker on Friday 27/Oct/2006, @06:50
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No, /media was created for media devices... cdroms, floppies, usb drives etc. /mnt is where you (/)mount stuff to. I'm not talking about konq, I know I can enter paths in that, but I can't use it to set the lib location in Amarok or point an application at my web source stuff /var or any other number of things I'd like to use my file dialog for.
I personally don't like this solution much, but I wouldn't have to care if it was easy to get rid of. My biggest objection to it is that I lost a big chunk of functionality with no warning and no way to get it back obvious. I shouldn't have to fight my system and scour the web to open a file.
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Re: couple of gripes
by Jucato on Friday 27/Oct/2006, @17:25
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If /media was created for media devices only, why are hard drives mounted to /media by default, then? What are hard drives? Aren't they media as well? Maybe you meant removable devices? But if /media is for removable devices only, and /mnt is for "a temporary mounted filesystem" only (check your FHS), where do you put permanent/standard mounts? Kubuntu has chosen to do that in /media. Most new users would mount to /media (if and when they know how to), anyway.
Anyway, you are supposed to mount to /media, now. If you still prefer to use /mnt, you can easily make /mnt appear again by editing the /.hidden file and removing /mnt. This will make it visible again in Amarok.
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Re: couple of gripes
by Martin Ellis on Saturday 28/Oct/2006, @08:59
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According to the FHS, /media is for removable media:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT
It doesn't seem particularly explicit wrt. whether it's exclusively for removeable media though. Either way, /mnt is still an acceptable place to mount stuff. It certainly doesn't appear to be deprecated.
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Re: couple of gripes
by terracotta on Saturday 28/Oct/2006, @13:33
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Nobody said it wasn't acceptable, but /media is acceptable as well and a lot more clear to what it is used for. Not used hard disk partitions are mounted there as well, while in for example media:/ all hard disks (even the one mounted to / ) are shown there (which is irritating to me, but that's a personal opinion). From the beginning of Ubuntu their preference of mounting stuff to /media was quite clear. The only thing they need to work out now, is a way to show the not mounted optical drives or removable media that are in the drive or in the usb-port to show up like in media:/.
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Re: couple of gripes
by mart on Monday 30/Oct/2006, @07:49
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Oh, I interpreted "Anyway, you are supposed to mount to /media, now" as a statement that things shouldn't be mounted there.
Besides, even if you do mount hard drives to /media, this isn't about mounting hard disks. The thread is about mounting NFS volumes.
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