[NTLUG:Discuss] OpenSuse 13.1 USB mount point

[Christopher Cox]

On 08/31/2015 09:26 AM, Stuart A Johnston wrote:
> On 08/30/2015 08:14 PM, Christopher Cox wrote:
>> On 08/30/2015 05:43 PM, Leroy Tennison wrote:
>>> The programmer-priests are trying to hide everything from us in an
>>> attempt to
>>> turn Linux into Windows, wonder if there are money transfers taking
>>> place ;-)
>>> (just my opinion)?
>>
>> The move to placing user mounted things into a directory that could be
>> user owned was deemed an important security thing.  So now such mounts
>> are done at /run/media/<username>/<user-owned-meta-name>/...etc...
>
> What was wrong with /media/<username>/<user-owned-meta-name> though?
>
> The LSB/FHS still just specifies /media anyway:
> http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.html#mediaMountPoint

I think there was/is a version of Fedora where the symlink went away, but 
generally it's there so that you can use either path.