[NTLUG:Discuss] OpenSuse 13.1 USB mount point
Stuart A Johnston
saj at thecommune.net
Mon Aug 31 09:26:53 CDT 2015
On 08/30/2015 08:14 PM, Christopher Cox wrote:
> On 08/30/2015 05:43 PM, Leroy Tennison wrote:
>> The programmer-priests are trying to hide everything from us in an
>> attempt to
>> turn Linux into Windows, wonder if there are money transfers taking
>> place ;-)
>> (just my opinion)?
>
> The move to placing user mounted things into a directory that could be
> user owned was deemed an important security thing. So now such mounts
> are done at /run/media/<username>/<user-owned-meta-name>/...etc...
What was wrong with /media/<username>/<user-owned-meta-name> though?
The LSB/FHS still just specifies /media anyway:
http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.html#mediaMountPoint
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