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/media or /mnt or anywhere ? Discussion. (self.linux4noobs)
submitted 4 months ago by gpstarman to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good discussion here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/22215/why-have-both-mnt-and-media

The new standard is that /media is where the system mounts removable media, and /mnt is for you to mount things manually.

and

Another important difference not mentioned yet is that devices mounted under /mnt will not appear in Nautilus' left pane, whilst those mounted under /media (as well as auto-detected devices that are not mounted yet) will.

[–] gpstarman 2 points 4 months ago

Thank You for the details.