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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:12:50AM +0000, Tony Smith wrote:
> On Thursday 20 November 2003 5:55 am, David Kowis wrote:
> > IMHO, I don't think we need this, I usually put my server roots (http,
> > ftp etc) in /home/FTP or /home/apache. So I think that should be left up
> > to the user. If they want their junk there, then they can move it.
> 
> I agree. I use /home/ftp and /home/www and would find /srv unnecessary and 
> ugly. It's also another mount point to administer....

The fhs isn't about what the user/admin does with his system, so you
would be free to use /home/www for your apache instead of /srv/www. The
basic idea of /srv is that you can sit down on any distro, install
apache and know where its default document root is. Not that installing
a webserver on a distro you don't know is a good idea security wise :P

> > As for /media. Why? /mnt is perfectly fine. And what about the hard
> > drive that's internal to my computer that I mount there (/mnt/storage).
> > I use it to transfer between windows and linux (vfat). I suppose it
> > doesn't really matter at all...
> > I don't think we need to change the defaults.
> 
> /mnt/tmp is for emergency mounts. /mnt/cdrom etc. are (a) perfectly good 
> and 
> (b) well known and understood.
> 
> My vote: If it's not broken, don't fix it
> Tony

For strict fhs compliance, /mnt/cdrom wasn't allowed in the previous
versions. There just wasn't any specification of where
cdroms/floppies/... should be mounted.
My vote for that part would be (in order of preference):
- /mnt/cdrom
- The FHS should not specify and allow it wherever the distribution
  wishes

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