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minus-squareSunny' 🌻@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·12 days agoOn my distro(Bazzite), /mnt is only a symlink to /var/mnt. Not sure why, but only found out the other day.
minus-squareLeaflet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days 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-squareLeFantome@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 days 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.