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/media or /mnt or anywhere ? Discussion. (lemmy.today)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Where should I mount my internal drive partitions?

As far as I searched on the internet, I came to know that

/Media = mount point for removable media that system do it itself ( usb drive , CD )

/Mnt = temporarily mounting anything manually

I can most probably mount anything wherever I want, but if that's the case what's the point of /mnt? Just to be organised I suppose.

TLDR

If /mnt is for temporary and /media is for removable where should permanent non-removable devices/partitions be mounted. i.e. an internal HDD which is formatted as NTFS but needs to be automounted at startup?

Asking with the sole reason to know that, what's the practice of user who know Linux well, unlike me.

I know this is a silly question but I asked anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The Linux FHS does not address this, so it's up to you where to mount it. There is no correct choice, but if you want to follow standards just mount it inside /mnt which is the nearest use-case (/media could be automatically used by your DE, so avoid it). Otherwise you can just create a custom folder in root like someone else suggested.

Take a look at FHS spec.

Edit:
On arch forum someone suggests /mnt/data

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Thank You.

Otherwise you can just create a custom folder in root like someone else suggested

My Files, which are inside the partition mounted in /mnt/something has root as Owner. So When I try to move something to Trash, it's not allowing me to do, Only perma delete. When saw properties it said owner is root.

Is it because mounted at /mnt?

Files under /media seems fine. files under /media says it's owner is 'me'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

/mnt/something has root as Owner. So When I try to move something to Trash, it's not allowing me to do

You have to change permissions or owner of that folder (not /mnt itself but the subfolder "something").
If I'm not wrong changing permissions is enough to use gui "move to trash", you can use chmod thru cli (man chmod) o your gui file manager with root privileges.

If you want only your user be able to read/write to that disk, then change the owner using chown thru cli (man chown) or again your gui file manager.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So, if I use chmod, I get the access and other users (if any) are free to do so.

In case of chown, I get the full access and others can't gain access unless I permit.

Right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

On Linux files and folders have permissions info for owner, group and everyone else. So you can set individual permissions for these.

By setting the owner to root, if you want to make your user able to read/write that folder, you must either give permissions to everyone to read/write OR assign a group to the folder, give the group permissions to read/write and add your user to that group.

If you instead set your user as the owner of the folder, you can make only your user able to read/write without other fuss.

If you are a newbie, stick to gui file manager. Can you please tell me what file manager are you using? Most of the time you can change permissions thru right click > propriety > permissions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

If you instead set your user as the owner of the folder, you can make only your user able to read/write without other fuss.

Thanks for the tip.

Can you please tell me what file manager are you using?

I'm using Nemo. As it's the default one on Mint Cinnamon.