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<sect1 id="media">
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<title>/media</title>
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<para>
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Amid much controversy and consternation on the part of system and
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network administrators a directory containing mount points for removable
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media has now been created. Funnily enough, it has been named /media.
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</para>
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<para>
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<screen>
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This directory contains subdirectories which are used as mount points for
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removeable media such as floppy disks, cdroms and zip disks.
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The motivation for the creation of this directory has been that historically
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there have been a number of other different places used to mount removeable
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media such as /cdrom, /mnt or /mnt/cdrom. Placing the mount points for all
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removeable media directly in the root directory would potentially result in
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a large number of extra directories in /. Although the use of subdirectories
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in /mnt as a mount point has recently been common, it conflicts with a much
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older tradition of using /mnt directly as a temporary mount point.
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The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, must be in /media,
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if the corresponding subsystem is installed:
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floppy Floppy drive (optional)
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cdrom CD-ROM drive (optional)
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cdrecorder CD writer (optional)
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zip Zip drive (optional)
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On systems where more than one device exists for mounting a certain type of
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media, mount directories can be created by appending a digit to the name of
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those available above starting with '0', but the unqualified name must also
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exist.
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A compliant implementation with two CDROM drives might have /media/cdrom0
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and /media/cdrom1 with /media/cdrom a symlink to either of these.
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</screen>
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</para>
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<para>
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Please see the section on the /mnt directory to achieve a better understanding
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of the process on mounting and unmounting filesystems.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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