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Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
 (
FHS
) that was 
mentioned in 
Chapter 4
, 
Navigating and Essential Commands
. The purposes of the 
/mnt
 
and 
/media
 directories are defined within this specification. The FHS defines 
/mnt
 as 
a mount point for a temporarily mounted filesystem, and 
/media
 as a mount point 
for removable media.
In plain English, this means that the intended purpose of 
/mnt
 is for storage volumes 
you generally keep mounted most of the time, such as additional hard drives, 
virtual hard disks, and network-attached storage. The FHS document uses the term 
temporary
 when describing 
/mnt
, but I'm not sure why that's the case since this is 
generally where things are mounted that you generally expect to be around for a 
while. Perhaps temporary just refers to the fact that the system doesn't require this 
mount in order to boot, but who knows. In regard to 
/media
, the FHS is basically 
indicating that removable media (flash drives, CD-ROM media, external hard drives, 
and so on) are intended to be mounted there.
Some filesystems, such as XFS, are not supported by default and 
may need an additional package installed in order for it to be used. 
In the case of XFS, it requires the 
xfsprogs
 package to be installed.

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