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.

  • prettybunnys
    41·
    5 months ago

    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).