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minus-squareDetective'linkfedilink3•3 months agoOn my distro(Bazzite), /mnt is only a symlink to /var/mnt. Not sure why, but only found out the other day.
minus-squareLeafletlinkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoI’m using Silverblue and it also symlinks to /var/mnt. I don’t think it does that on traditional distros, like Fedora 40 Workstation.
minus-square@LeFantome@programming.devlinkfedilink1•3 months agoI assume it is because /var can be written to while the rest of the filesystem ( outside /home ) is expected to be read-only.
On my distro(Bazzite), /mnt is only a symlink to /var/mnt. Not sure why, but only found out the other day.
I’m using Silverblue and it also symlinks to /var/mnt. I don’t think it does that on traditional distros, like Fedora 40 Workstation.
I assume it is because /var can be written to while the rest of the filesystem ( outside /home ) is expected to be read-only.