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.

  • gpstarman@lemmy.todayOP
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    5 months ago

    Thank You.

    Otherwise you can just create a custom folder in root like someone else suggested

    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’

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      5 months ago

      /mnt/something has root as Owner. So When I try to move something to Trash, it’s not allowing me to do

      You have to change permissions or owner of that folder (not /mnt itself but the subfolder “something”).
      If I’m not wrong changing permissions is enough to use gui “move to trash”, you can use chmod thru cli (man chmod) o your gui file manager with root privileges.

      If you want only your user be able to read/write to that disk, then change the owner using chown thru cli (man chown) or again your gui file manager.

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        5 months ago

        So, if I use chmod, I get the access and other users (if any) are free to do so.

        In case of chown, I get the full access and others can’t gain access unless I permit.

        Right?