Media and Mnt

[Da Rock]

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 22:50 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 17:57 +0530, Gopal Ghosh wrote:
> > What is the difference between /media and /mnt
> 
> In addition to the other two replies I've seen answering this, /media is
> used by the auto-mounting system.  It'll mount such media as a
> subdirectory inside /media.  If you mount something there, then the
> auto-mounter mounts something else on top, you can paint yourself into a
> corner.  Whereas /mnt is ignored, by it, and you're free to manually do
> what you like with it.
> 

I wasn't aware of that fact- thats good to know, thanks.