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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] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I think tooling only cares for partitions. So /home and / are usually runtime-critical (can be on different disks or network storage), while internal data disks count as removable, since you can unmount their partitions.

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

My simple brain can't understand it bro. 🥲

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

This is from times where Unix & co only ran on a corporate server and cubicle slaves accesed it via thin client. There was /home/alice-abbey /home/bert-branson on one disk of the server, '/' root on another, with less storage and more performance. And often /usr on a third. While /-root has to be locally, everything else can be managed however you're funny, even nfs shares. But historically, /mnt was for temporary mounts. I think the /run/user/usernane/diskname came up with xdg, it's where graphical filemanagers find disks.

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

Thank you for the explanation.