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.
There’s also
/run/media/[username]/. Don’t know if it’s an OpenSUSE thing or Plasma but everything I mount through KDE’s file manager Dolphin ends up there. Including stuff I set up to mount automatically.It is the same on Mint too.
The best mounting position is
/booty.Thank You for suggestion. Gonna try that Tonight and have fun mounting loads of data.
I use multiple subdirectories under /mnt for my fstab/systemd-mount managed disks. That includes local and network locations.
But isn’t anything under /mnt is defaulted to
rootas owner?Yeah, but you need root anyways to mount disks (most of the time), so doing a quick
chownisn’t that much effort.Edit:
chown>chmodThank You.
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.I have no idea man. Seems fine though.
Basically if I add it to my fstab it goes to /mnt. I let the system handle /media for usb etc
Thank You.
/[UUID or PART-UUID].[partition number/letter]
I’m an OpenBSD user, but it shouldn’t be hard to translate this to Linux:
If the partition I want to mount is
/dev/sd0i, and sd0’s UID/DUID is3c6905d2260afe09, I mount/dev/sd0iat/3c6905d2260afe09.i. fstab entry looks like3c6905d2260afe09.i /3c6905d2260afe09.i ffs rw,whatever_flags 0 0Ik bro, but having whole bunch of random numbers as mount point seems less intuitive to me.
well diskletters/numbers can change between boots and hardware configurations, and unless you have a good label for the partition, this is the only way I can think of to name your permanent mount points that isn’t problematic/incorrect in some other way. This will always work correctly with any amount of partitions with any amount of disks; and it’s not exactly hard to get the DUID of a disk, at least on OpenBSD. It’s also highly scriptable as such.
Thanks for the info.
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.
