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/mnt is for anything and everything. /media doesn't even exist on Arch based distros and maybe others.
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.
You can adjust ownership and permissions for
/mnt/something
usingchown
andchmod
.Thank You.
/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).Even if I mount fixed drives on
/mnt
, there won't be any problems, right ?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.Thanks. I guess I'll make something like
/Disks