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

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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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[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

/mydrive

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's what I do, /music

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (7 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

IMO you should use LVM2 or one of the high level filesystems that have similar features, and then dynamically create partitions and mount them as needed. E.g. Suddenly need 50G for a new VM image? Make a partition and mount it where you need the space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

If I'm not wrong LVM is a method which joins all your disk into single storage pool.

Let's say I stored data all across my LVM, now I remove one of the disks. What happen now?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I used to mount network attached storage in /mnt until I had problems accessing it from a Snap. In searching for a solution it was pointed out that snaps are correct in being sandboxed from these types of folders, and users like myself are making things difficult for ourselves by using those system folders.

They said the best practice would be to mount them in a folder in your home directory. I've switched to doing that and it works great.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

/[UUID or PART-UUID].[partition number/letter]

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Mount them where you need. Not /mnt and not /media. Maybe /var or its subdirectory, or /srv, or /opt depending on what kind of data you want to store on that partition.

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