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

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That depends on your usecase.

I have setup servers where I mounted extra drives on /srv/nfs

When/If I switch to Linux I will probably mount my secondary drives to folders like

/home/stoy/videos

/home/stoy/music

/home/stoy/photos

/home/stoy/documents

/home/stoy/games

The ~/games will probably be an LVM since it contains little critical data and may absolutely need to be expanded to span several drives, though I would also be able to reduce the size of it and remove a drive from the LVM if needed.

I'd make a simple conky config to keep track of the drive space used

I'd just keep using the default automount spot for automounting drives.

[–] flux@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

My /home is also on a separate filesystem, so in principle I don't like to mounting data under there, because then I cannot unmount /home (e.g. for fsck purposes) unless I unmount also all the other filesystems there. I keep all my filesystems on LVM.

So I just mount to /mnt and use symlinks.

Exception: sshfs I often mount to home.

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[–] gpstarman@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago (2 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 suddenly remove one of the disks. What happen now?

Also can I add more disks to LVM later?

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[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

/mydrive

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