/media or /mnt or anywhere ? Discussion.
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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Why though?
Just media files, downloads, images , music kinda stuff.
The filesystem is organized to store data by its type, not by the physical storage. In DOS/Windows you stick to separate "disks", but not in Unix-like OSes. This approach is inconvenient in case of removable media, that's why
/mediaexists. And/mntis not suited for any particular purpose, just for the case when you need to manually mount some filesystem to perform occasional actions, that normally never happens.That's what usually goes to
/home/. Maybe mount that device directly to/home? Or, if you want to extend your existent/homepartition, use LVM or btrfs to join partitions from various drives. Or mount the partition to some subdirectory of/home/, or even split it and mount its parts to/home//Downloads,/home//Moviesetc. So you keep the logic of filesystem layout and don't need to remember where you saved some file (in/home//Downloadsor in/whatever-mountpoint-you-use/downloads).Thanks bro. I think that's what I'm gonna do.