I've posted this Bug on the Gentoo Documentation list, and they told me they won't fix it until the baselayout does provide the lacking directories. So I post it here: Hi :-) I just installed Gentoo (another time ;-) on a computer and read the following recommendation for an entry in /etc/fstab to define a mount point for a CD: /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 The FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/) says the following: /mnt : Mount point for a temporarily mounted filesystem Purpose: 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. This directory must not be used by installation programs: a suitable temporary directory not in use by the system must be used instead. and /media : Mount point for removeable media Purpose: This directory contains subdirectories which are used as mount points for removeable media such as floppy disks, cdroms and zip disks. Rationale: Historically there have been a number of other different places used to mount removeable media such as /cdrom, /mnt or /mnt/cdrom. Placing the mount points for all removeable media directly in the root directory would potentially result in a large number of extra directories in /. Although the use of subdirectories in /mnt as a mount point has recently been common, it conflicts with a much older tradition of using /mnt directly as a temporary mount point. I think, this is senseful, I use it myself in this way. Probably, one should integrate this in the documentation. In my opinion, the baselayout should be updated to have a /media directory, as well as a /srv/www directory instead of the /var/www and so on. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
this has been discussed before and currently we're not interested in switching to /media http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/12392 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/26489 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/15629
I don't see any discussion about the place where removeable media should go in the links you've posted ... but okay ... Why are you not interested in switching to /media? The arguments of the FHS seem reasonble to me.
