Overlayroot consider not to mount in /media
Bug #1785065 reported by
Nehemiah of Zebulun
This bug affects 1 person
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cloud-initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) |
New
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Bug Description
We are using overlayroot in combination with NBD, booting our Ubuntu Bionic workstations over the network. One thing we noticed is that the 'root-ro' mount becomes available to the end user as a mounted volume in Nemo file manager. I adjusted the overlayroot package to mount in '/mnt' which changed that behavior. I'm not sure if '/mnt' should be the location to mount but it would certainly be worth considering mounting in another location than '/media'.
summary: |
- Consider not to mount in /media + Overlayroot consider not to mount in /media |
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Per FHS [1] I think /media is correct.
- /mnt/ : Temporarily mounted filesystems
- /media/ : Mount points for removable media such as CD-ROMs (appeared in FHS-2.3)
It isn't really temporary as it has to stay for the runtime of the system.
OTOH it isn't a removable media either.
I'll wait what Scott thinks about it - I think he is subscribed but I'll add him explicitly.
Might I ask you to outline the actual pain points you see due to this, I have some ideas but wonder what it is for you:
- that users wonder what "this thing" in the Nemo file manager is?
- that they get old data on the -ro mount as it is before the overlay?
- ...?
[1]: https:/ /wiki.debian. org/FilesystemH ierarchyStandar d