/media versus /mnt

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> anything mounted temporarily should go into /mnt/ removable media
> like floppy and cd's are to go into /media and many people do use
> tape drives

sorry, what's the difference here?  if i want to mount a CF card,
that's removable media that's being mounted temporarily.   where does
that fall in your classification?

rday