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819	FHS Compliance Note	lizardo@…	lfs-book@…	"Reported by DJ Lucas: 
 
Need to add /media and /srv to 'FHS compliance note' or (prefered) to  
creating directories command. 
 
Quote from 2.3: 
 
> 3.11. /media : Mount point for removeable media 
> 3.11.1. Purpose 
> This directory contains subdirectories which are used as mount points  
> for removeable media such as floppy disks, cdroms and zip disks. 
> Historically there have been a number of other different places used  
> to mount removeable media such as /cdrom, /mnt or /mnt/cdrom. Placing  
> the mount points for all removeable media directly in the root directory 
> would potentially result in a large number of extra directories in /.  
> Although the use of subdirectories in /mnt as a mount point has recently  
> been common, it conflicts with a much older tradition of using /mnt  
> directly as a temporary mount point. 
> 3.11.2. Specific Options 
> The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, must be  
> in /media, if the corresponding subsystem is installed: 
> Directory Description 
> floppy Floppy drive (optional) 
> cdrom CD-ROM drive (optional) 
> cdrecorder CD writer (optional) 
> zip Zip drive (optional) 
> On systems where more than one device exists for mounting a certain  
> type of media, mount directories can be created by appending a digit  
> to the name of those available above starting with ?0?, but the  
> unqualified name must also exist. 
> 3.12. /mnt : Mount point for a temporarily mounted 
> filesystem 
> 3.12.1. Purpose 
> This directory is provided so that the system administrator may  
> temporarily mount a filesystem as needed. The content of this  
> directory is a local issue and should not affect the manner in which  
> any program is run.  This directory must not be used by installation  
> programs: a suitable temporary directory not in use by the system 
> must be used instead. 
<Snip> 
> 3.16. /srv : Data for services provided by this system 
> 3.16.1. Purpose 
> /srv contains site-specific data which is served by this system. 
> Rationale 
> This main purpose of specifying this is so that users may find the  
> location of the data files for particular service, and so that services  
> which require a single tree for readonly data, writable data and scripts  
> (such as cgi scripts) can be reasonably placed. Data that is only of  
> interest to a specific user should go in that users? home directory. 
> The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is unspecified as  
> there is currently no consensus on how this should be done. One method  
> for structuring data under /srv is by protocol, eg. ftp, rsync, www, 
> and cvs. On large systems it can be useful to structure /srv by  
> administrative context, such as /srv/physics/www, /srv/compsci/cvs, etc.  
> This setup will differ from host to host. Therefore, no program 
> should rely on a specific subdirectory structure of /srv existing  
> or data necessarily being stored in /srv.  However /srv should always  
> exist on FHS compliant systems and should be used as the default  
> location for such data. 
> Distributions must take care not to remove locally placed files in these  
> directories without administrator permission."	defect	closed	lowest		Book	CVS	normal	fixed