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> On many UNIX systems, mounting drives has become automatic, and the mount points for the drives live in a folder called /mnt.

No, no, no, no, no. This hasn't been the case since at least eight years ago, when FHS 2.3 (released in Jan 2004) clarified the purpose of `/mnt` and added the `/media` directory. `/media` is for mountpoints for removable media, and `/mnt` is for temporarily-mounted filesystems.



Ok, the article was written in 2005. I can give it some slack.




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