Where to mount shared vfat partitions?

[James Wilkinson]

Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> Actually, why do you even have
> directories with data in /mnt? Although it is possible to use /mnt as a
> normal directory, I normally use it only for mount points to removable
> storage -- but, hey, whatever floats your boat.

As I remember it, that was where all mounts went on Red Hat Linux if
they didn't fit into the normal scheme, including things like vfat
partitions shared with other OSes on the same machine. I believe that
was "suggested" by the early installers, but obviously it's been years
since I used one of them...

Basically, you could either have all your mount-points (Debian-style)
under / (e.g.  /cdrom, /win95) and use /mnt for a "scratch" mount point,
or you could have all your mount-points under /mnt (e.g. /mnt/cdrom,
/mnt/win95 and /mnt/misc). (This was before the days of /media, which as
far as I can tell was an attempt at a compromise that left /mnt free but
stopped you having too many folders directly in /).

Googling /mnt/windows site:redhat.com gives official Red Hat
documentation (including one for RHEL 4) suggesting that this is the
place to put mount points.

Hope this helps,

James.

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