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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by gpstarman@lemmy.today to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Kelo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I myself have separate /Disks folder where I mount all my internal disks on boot. Not sure how "standard" such setup is, but it helped me keep my NTFS and Linux disks tidy and out of my way. For what I know you can mount your drives anywhere you like

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[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unless dictated by the particular data in the disks, /mnt is generally used for system managed volumes and /media is used for user managed volumes.

If you do something else, stick with it so you don’t get confused.

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[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

If they’re internal drives then you choose.

I like to mount drives at root, their parent directory being the logical purpose of the drive.

Got a drive you added that’s gonna be for games?

/games

Is it for movies?

/movies

Or maybe it’s just general data storage?

/data

No need to make it more complicated than it has to be.

This is standard across the industry, unless you are mounting disks that would conform to another strategy (say it’s a drive of repos, it might mounted under /usr/local/src/ as that’s where one would expect user provided source code).

[–] gpstarman@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

No need to make it more complicated than it has to be.

Thank You.

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[–] GuyNoIRQ@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If I remember correctly mnt is for static media that you expect to always be present and media is for removable media which may come and go.

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

This makes sense.

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