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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] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

/mnt is for anything and everything. /media doesn't even exist on Arch based distros and maybe others.

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

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. and says it's owner is 'me'

IDK if I'm doing anything wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can adjust ownership and permissions for /mnt/something using chown and chmod.

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

Thank You.

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

/mnt is not for everything, it is a temporary mount point. For fixed drives that are constantly mounted you should use another location (that could be anywhere in the filesystem tree).

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

/mnt is not for everything, it is a temporary mount point.

Even if I mount fixed drives on /mnt, there won't be any problems, right ?

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

Technically, no. Until you want to mount something but find /mnt is busy or simply forget about this and mount something there, losing access to previously mounted stuff. The only problem is that you have to remember which mountpoint you use for particular filesystem, while the FHS is designed to avoid this and abstract from physical devices as much as possible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Thanks. I guess I'll make something like /Disks