[Gllug] Failed to open cd device cdroms/cdrom0

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Fri Feb 4 13:56:24 UTC 2005


On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:35:46PM +0000, Sean wrote:
> /mnt/cdrom does seem to have moved to /media/cdrom
> 
> Is this due to a change in the filesystem standards ?

/mnt/cdrom has been deprecated for quite some time, though some
distributions paid no attention.  /mnt is supposed to be a convenient
place for a sysadmin to mount arbitrary filesystems temporarily.  /media
is a new thing and now part of the FHS.

-- 
Bruce

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tra-la-la-la-la.  -- Tiny Tim.
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