Linux – Mounting multiple devices at a single mount point on Linux

FUSE (Filesystem in USErspace) allows many things to be accessible as ordinary files (not an exhaustive list by any means):

• remote files accessed via FTP
• remote files accessed via ssh
• remote files accessed via WebDAV
• files in archives
• files inside a non-running virtual machine image with xmount
• anything that looks like a file to a Gnome application
• Blogger blogs
• Flickr

There are also many FUSE filesystems that present a view of another filesystem with filtering, renaming or modified metadata or content:

• Keep copies of all past versions of files with copyfs, waybackfs, ...
• Log every action with loggedfs
• Encrypt files transparently with encfs
• Convert audio content with mp3fs
• See a read-only view or change permissions with bindfs
• See a partial read-only view with rofs-filtered
• Convert file name character sets with convmvfs
• Get a case-insensitive view with ciopfs

More possibilities on the FUSE site and elsewhere. You can also easily define your own in Erlang, Haskell, Lisp, Lua, Ocaml, Perl, Python, ...

First and foremost, this is going to depend solely on your architecture, and customs.

I for instance mount things like this under /mnt. I know people that create top level directories, and people who put this stuff in /home. It all depends on what you're comfortable with. There is no distinct standard on this anymore, the architecture of the system has changed, and you have varying views now, on things that used to be 'gospel'. Things like /usr/local or /opt/share, rpm or source...you get the drift.

Secondly, if you re-read through your link at pathname.com, you'll notice the paragraph under /media that states

Rationale

Historically there have been a number of other different places used to mount removeable media such as /cdrom, /mnt or /mnt/cdrom. Placing the mount points for all removeable media directly in the root directory would potentially result in a large number of extra directories in /. Although the use of subdirectories in /mnt as a mount point has recently been common, it conflicts with a much older tradition of using /mnt directly as a temporary mount point.

So personally, I advocate /mnt/windows or some iteration of that. It keeps the top level dir free, and is simple and intuitive. When I'm looking through or auditing a system, that's where I look for mounts right off the bat.