Media and Mnt

[Robert Locke]

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.

And, by auto-mounting system, you mean the GUI facilities, not "autofs",
right?

autofs is monitoring /misc and /net by default. (see /etc/auto.master)
GUI facilities are auto-mounting under /media (i.e., see gnome-mount)
Manual mounting should be done under /mnt


HTH,

--Rob