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minus-squareZeppolinkfedilinkEnglish24•4 months ago/home is often on a separate volume. You’d want root to be available in a maintenance situation where /home may not be mounted. I don’t recall the reasons for the addition but /media is newer than /mnt.
minus-square@grue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish10•4 months ago I don’t recall the reasons for the addition but /media is newer than /mnt. Something to do with hard-coded mounts in /etc/fstab vs. dynamically-mounted removable media (USB drives etc.), I think.
minus-square@jaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•4 months agoI’ve also seen autofs network automounts go in /net
/home is often on a separate volume. You’d want root to be available in a maintenance situation where /home may not be mounted.
I don’t recall the reasons for the addition but /media is newer than /mnt.
Something to do with hard-coded mounts in
/etc/fstabvs. dynamically-mounted removable media (USB drives etc.), I think.I’ve also seen autofs network automounts go in /net