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.

  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
    171·
    6 months ago

    It ultimately doesn’t actually matter because in many cases these things are convention and there is no real system-based effect. So while it would be especially weird if your distro installed packages into those directories, it ultimately doesn’t matter. Someone already linked the filesystem hirearchy. See how tiny the /media and /mnt sections are?

    I put my fixed disks into subdirectories under /mnt and I mount my NAS shares (I keep it offline most of the time) in subdirectories in /media.

    • gpstarmanOP
      2·
      6 months ago

      fixed disks under /mnt

      NAS in /media

      Why ? that’s what I’m asking. Can’t you just put in the same folder and call it a day?

      I put my fixed disk in /mnt

      My Files, which are inside the partition mounted in /mnt/something has root as Owner. So When I try to move something to Trash, it’s not allowing me to do, Only perma delete. When saw properties it said owner is root.

      Is it because mounted at /mnt?

      Files under /media seems fine. files under /media says it’s owner is ‘me’

      • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
        6·
        6 months ago

        The answer to your question why is because I arbitrarily decided on that years ago. That’s basically all there is to it.

        The answer to your file ownership problems I can’t answer, because I don’t have that happening. My files are mounted like so:

        LABEL=BigHD /mnt/BigHD btrfs nosuid,nodev,nofail,noatime,x-gvfs-show,compress-force=zstd:1 0 0

        • gpstarmanOP
          3·
          6 months ago

          The answer to your question why is because I arbitrarily decided on that years ago. That’s basically all there is to it.

          Thanks for clarifying bro

      • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Mounting to a specific location should not affect the permissions of the drive. But in the case of NTFS and some other filesystems, Linux is not compatible with their permission model, so it is simplified by e.g. making all files be only accessible by root.
        You can override this default with mount options, or change the permissions to sensible values with chmod and chown, but I’m not sure if changing them will have negative side effects on the windows side so the latter may not be a good idea.

        • gpstarmanOP
          1·
          6 months ago

          Thank you bro. I think I’ll stick into making new folder for my disks in /.

          • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

            I would recommend to put them inside /mnt for internal disks. It’s a bit more organized that way, and by looking at the path is easier to know that it’s in an internal drive.