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

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by gpstarman@lemmy.today to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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 (3 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.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've had some problems with mounting disks in my user home folder. I can't recall the details, but it did cause me a headache at some point.

[–] gpstarman@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the heads up.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Backups copy from backups to backups from backups to backups. Disk full.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Use borg

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

Can you please elaborate?

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Infinite recursion. If you backup data in your home dir, then you probably don't want your backups mounted inside your home Dir.

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

That actually happens? I thought that TimeShift or whatever utility will sense that and just don't the recursion thing.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 4 months ago

It depends on your backup tool

[–] gpstarman@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago

I have no idea man. Seems fine though.