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minus-squareumbraroze@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months ago/mnt is meant for volumes that you manually mount temporarily. This used to be basically the only way to use removable media back in the day. /media came to be when the automatic mounting of removable media became a fashionable thing. And it’s kind of the same to this day. /media is understood to be managed by automounters and /mnt is what you’re supposed to mess with as a user.
/mnt is meant for volumes that you manually mount temporarily. This used to be basically the only way to use removable media back in the day.
/media came to be when the automatic mounting of removable media became a fashionable thing.
And it’s kind of the same to this day. /media is understood to be managed by automounters and /mnt is what you’re supposed to mess with as a user.