The recent upgrade of baselayout (re)created .keep files in /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/floppy, although these directories should be both under /media. See FHS: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT I was just wondering and of course only had to delete them manually again. But perhaps it would be a good thing to change baselayout to the right locations? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -v sys-apps/baselayout Actual Results: /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/floppy were created with their .keep files in them. Expected Results: s/mnt/media/ Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2 /share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/gen eric/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/mnt/storage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://www.ibiblio .org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home" (I know, this violates fhs, too, but it's only temporary) PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apm arts artswrappersuid avi cdr crypt curl doc dvd emac s encode geoip gif gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jpeg kde libwww linguas_de mad matr oska mmx mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby slang sse ssl tcpd tetex threads truetype videos x86 xm l xml2 xmms xv zlib"
i dont think many people on the gentoo team really feel like 'updating' to the 2.3 specification to be honest
I'm of the opinion that /media is really, really stupid.
I don't even like /mnt for cdrom and floppy, it's quicker to type /cdrom or /floppy. User preference I guess. Eitherway, there was a rather large discussion about integrating /srv into gentoo, as it does seem to have some use, where as /media doesn't seem to make alot of sense. You can dig this discussion up on the gentoo-dev archives on the various ML archiving websites (if you're not subscribed to gentoo-dev).
Okay, thank you for the comments, and i think i'm going to follow gentoo-dev from now on. Should someone mark this as WONTFIX then? I myself like /media, i think it's the natural choice for a place to accumulate the increasing number of mount points for removable media (cdrom/dvd/burner/dvd-burner/usb/...), since they for sure are something different than mounted network filesystems or local windows installations. And polluting / with 1 to 8 directories is totally out of question. Lazyness isn't an argument here, too, since you could easyly add /mnt /media or whatever to your shell's CDPATH.
I actually picked up the behavior of /cdrom or /floppy from when I tried freebsd (4.5) out about 2 years ago. It kinda stuck I guess, but then again, we all have our bad habits :)
Don't like it either. What about network mount, and you win95/win2k disk you used to mount to /mnt .. I do not see them providing for that.
Couldn't we put this in a fhs useflag? I for one use /srv and /media and am very unhappy about baselayout going the suse way of forcing those /mnt-dirs on me. @comment # 6: If the user cam mount it, put it in /media. Don't understand whats the issue.
