Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in fedora

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On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 04:10:36PM -0400, Przemek Klosowski via devel wrote:
> On 8/5/25 1:01 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > FHS, even version 3, has mostly missed the evolution of Linux systems
> > that has happened in the last few decades. In particular, it
> > completely missed the usr-merge, and obviously the merge of bin and
> > sbin… Just looking at the contents table, it is full of outdated
> > stuff, it talks about /mnt and /media, without the understanding that
> > *temporary* paths need to go under /run instead of polluting the root
> > file system.
> 
> Funny you should mention that, I just reported a bug with 'filesystem'
> updates
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2386469
> 
> when there's something  mounted RO on /mnt. I used /mnt to temporarily mount
> an external drive, and the package wanted to use it for something during the
> update. Is /mnt somehow reserved for the system?

I replied in the bug, copying my answer here too:
> I guess what is happening is that rpm tries to adjust the mode of
> /mnt as described in the package, and there's VFAT mounted on /mnt,
> and that fails as unsupported.
>
> Since /mnt *is* supposed to be used like this, I think it'd make
> sense to change the entry to be %noverify or %ghost or something
> like that to make that case work.

Zbyszek
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