curious...

[chaytah]

I have Mandrake 7.2 installed. There is a folder called /mnt/disk/ on my drive and I don't know what it's there for. I don't see it in the fstab file, and I don't get anything in there is I stick in a floppy or zip. If I delete it, it is made again at boot time.

What's up with this?

[mdwatts]

What happens when you do this?

mount /mnt/disk

cd /mnt/disk

ls -al

cd /

umount /mnt/disk

[teeitup]

sounds like a system generated moint point directory.



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[scott_R]

Ok, this is something of a guess, but I did some looking and /mnt/disk seems to be a catchall for when you need to mount something, or emulate a disk, and you have no other way to do it. It can be used to hold your windows partition with wine, hold iso disk images, etc. To do something like this, you make a subdirectory under /mnt/disk, then load the files into that subdirectory.

In essence, it's like a mount point, just not dedicated to a specific purpose. Seems mostly for stuff that you may not want mounted all the time, or will remove in the future. Again, it's just a guess...

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[theflash]

Might be for Mandrake's auto recognition feature. Like Window's Auto-Load.

[Sweede]

Mandrake 7.2 automaticly creates /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/floppy, /mnt/disk on bootup.
if you dont want it, check the /etc/init.d/mandrake_everytime file