From: Ted Dunning (ted@nmsu.edu)
Date: 03/12/92 

From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning)
Subject: Re: Linux File System Document Revision 1.0
Date: 12 Mar 1992 19:23:55 GMT

In article <1992Mar9.143345.23474@rock.concert.net> abc@banjo.concert.net (Alan B Clegg) writes:

   /mnt Directory:

           Files:
                   NONE

           Directories:
                   NONE

           Rationale:
                   Standard mount point for external (transient) file
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^
                   systems. Must be available for sub-system
                   installation. Should remain as an empty directory.

   /tmp Directory:

           Files:
                   NONE

           Directories:
                   NONE

           Rationale:
                   Temporary file space available for general program
                   ^^^^^^^^^
                   use. May become a mounted partition upon system
                   boot.

why not just mkdir /tmp/mnt and mount things there?

and where should other non-transient partitions be mounted? how
should any future automounter handle it's operations (i.e. should we
specify now that /mnt is actually a directory full of mount points?)