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.

  • Revan343
    171·
    6 months ago

    Mounting locations are a convention, not a standard, mount whatever you like wherever you like. In your case, I’d mount it under /mnt/ntfs, /mnt/windows if it a windows main partition you want visible, or by drive letter if it’s a secondary drive on a dual-boot system.

    Or however you want. I would keep it under /mnt, but you don’t have to.

    Do maybe sure you have user permissions set up properly if this is a multiuser machine though

    Edit: also I would interpret

    If /mnt is for temporary

    ‘temporary’ as in ‘may become unmounted without seriously fucking the system’

    / and /home aren’t temporary. Everywhere else is

    • gpstarman@lemmy.todayOP
      3·
      6 months ago

      ‘temporary’ as in ‘may become unmounted without seriously fucking the system’

      Thanks bro. Now it make sense.