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So That’s the Difference Between /mnt and /media

When I started with Linux everything seemed to mount at /mnt in the filesystem. Later I started noticing everything seemed to be at /media. I took this to be a difference in the way different distributions were choosing to mount drives. But I just came across this...

Mac OS X’s Empty Files

Mac OS X uses the HFS+ filesystem. Most of the time I don’t think we notice or care what filesystem we use, but in some cases, the filesystem itself is an important feature and even a draw to a platform. The BeOS for example had the Be FileSystem (BFS), which...