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Old 06-18-2015, 10:35 PM   #842
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Do you mean /dev where block devices go, not filesystems? Or /mnt where by convention users manually mount their block devices to manually chosen, user-specific meaningful names?
That varies greatly between distributions. Some mount in the manner that you specified, others don't. I know of exactly zero that make their users manually name the mount points. Now, I've not used every distro out there, but I have used several over the last few years.

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Me, I was referring to the standards-based /media/{label}
See above regarding distribution variation.

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Regardless, GUI users have no beef in the matter -- they use the file browser bookmarks on the side.
On Windows, Linux and OSX.
Some file managers do and some don't. Windows' does, but at the same time, Windows doesn't use the Linux naming scheme.


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