I myself have separate /Disks folder where I mount all my internal disks on boot. Not sure how "standard" such setup is, but it helped me keep my NTFS and Linux disks tidy and out of my way. For what I know you can mount your drives anywhere you like
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If I remember correctly mnt is for static media that you expect to always be present and media is for removable media which may come and go.
This makes sense.
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I decided to simply create directories within /mnt, chmod 000 them and use them as fixed mountpoints;
for manual temporary mounts I have /mnt/a, /mnt/b, ... /mnt/f, but I never needed to use more than two of them at once.
While this setup doesn't really respect the filesystem hierarchy, I wouldn't have used /mnt at all if I were constrained by its standard purpose since having one available manual mountpoint seems pretty limiting to me.
Then again, I have 3 physical drives with ~ 10 partitions, plus one removable drive with its own dedicated mountpoint...
chmod 000
What does this do? I'm a Meganoob.
Fixed mountpoints
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having one available manual mountpoint
you mean the whole /mnt is meant to single mount point?
Sorry for all the questions.
Adding to what the other comment explained:
I use chown 000 so that regular users fail to access a directory when no filesystem is mounted on it; in practice it never happens, because "regular users" = { me }, but I like being pedantic.
As for /mnt, it is supposed to be a single temp. mountpoint, but I use it as the parent directory of multiple mountpoints some of which are just for temporary use.
I use
chown 000so that regular users fail to access a directory when no filesystem is mounted on it
My dummy brain can't understand it man.
Isn't someone can't access a directory when no filesystem is mounted on it the default behaviour?
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If they’re internal drives then you choose.
I like to mount drives at root, their parent directory being the logical purpose of the drive.
Got a drive you added that’s gonna be for games?
/games
Is it for movies?
/movies
Or maybe it’s just general data storage?
/data
No need to make it more complicated than it has to be.
This is standard across the industry, unless you are mounting disks that would conform to another strategy (say it’s a drive of repos, it might mounted under /usr/local/src/ as that’s where one would expect user provided source code).
No need to make it more complicated than it has to be.
Thank You.
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