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

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I create /data and mount my 2nd drive there using fstab.

I then mount /data/downloads under my user downloads folder so everything goes to my 2nd drive. That way I dont have to redownload anything if I redo my main drive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Good idea bro.

[–] Darohan 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do a similar thing with ~/Pictures and ~/Music, which are symlinked to my NextCloud Sync folder on my much larger second drive. It's good for saving space on my main drive, too, as those two folders contain a lot of data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is NextCloud a cloud service like GDrive or a sync service ? Does it have a free tier? 😅

[–] Darohan 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's like GDrive - except way more involved, you can do a lot with it. Files, office suite, photos, email, the works. There are hosts out there with various price points I'm sure, but I self-host so I can't give any info on pricing I'm afraid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think I should learn about self-hosting asap.

[–] Darohan 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a wonderful thing if you can get a hang of it. Though fair warning, it'll eat all your time for a fair while getting it set up 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

time for a fair while getting it set up

That's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

Also for some reason lemmy seems to rarely duplicate some comments. Now I'm seeing two of your same comment and two of my same reply.

[–] Darohan 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If I had to guess that's gonna be a quirk of ActivityPub, and should self-resolve in a little bit, but I'm not an expert so don't take me at my word there. I have some experience self-hosting setting up my own homelab over the last 2-3 years - if you'd like some "getting started" conversation, feel free to send me a DM or contact me on Matrix @darohan:tchncs.de

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thank you Chad.