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[Geoffrey Derber <gderber AT sourcemage.org>]

evraire AT tuwg.com wrote:
> I like /srv too, and like someone else on this list I associate /media with movies and 
> music.  In fact, when I first saw /media I thought "that's a great idea: often the 
> users on the same desktop system like to share media, so have a public directory for 
> it"... then I read what it was.
>
> However, I do see an advantage to being FHS compliant... programs might look 
> to /media/cdrom for instance, but then we could just symlink /srv to /mnt and 
> find it there.
>
> My vote then, for our default setup, is to add the /srv directory and use it 
> as intended, and symlink the /media directory to /mnt.  That way we're FHS 
> compliant and users who are sticky about it and easily delete the symlink or 
> replace it with an actual directory.  (Hmm... does that mean that fstab 
> should point to /media/cdrom by default?)
I thought this was more a vote as to what to recommend to FHS for the 
updated fhs standard?

For me, I'm against the /media directory.  I'm hesitant on the /srv 
directory.

Geoff