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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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[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

My second and third internal drive are mounted to /home/username/datagrave and /home/username/backup .
I see no reason why I shouldn't do it this way.

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In the past I've tended towards /srv/* as most mounts end up being application specific storage.

Though now it is all mounted as container volume storage.

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[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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.

[–] gpstarman@lemmy.today 1 points 4 months ago

My simple brain can't understand it bro. 🥲

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That depends on your usecase.

I have setup servers where I mounted extra drives on /srv/nfs

When/If I switch to Linux I will probably mount my secondary drives to folders like

/home/stoy/videos

/home/stoy/music

/home/stoy/photos

/home/stoy/documents

/home/stoy/games

The ~/games will probably be an LVM since it contains little critical data and may absolutely need to be expanded to span several drives, though I would also be able to reduce the size of it and remove a drive from the LVM if needed.

I'd make a simple conky config to keep track of the drive space used

I'd just keep using the default automount spot for automounting drives.

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[–] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

/mnt is for anything and everything. /media doesn't even exist on Arch based distros and maybe others.

[–] gpstarman@lemmy.today 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

/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).

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