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.

  • ssm@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    I’m an OpenBSD user, but it shouldn’t be hard to translate this to Linux:

    If the partition I want to mount is /dev/sd0i, and sd0’s UID/DUID is 3c6905d2260afe09, I mount /dev/sd0i at /3c6905d2260afe09.i. fstab entry looks like

    3c6905d2260afe09.i /3c6905d2260afe09.i ffs rw,whatever_flags 0 0

    • gpstarman@lemmy.todayOP
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      4 months ago

      Ik bro, but having whole bunch of random numbers as mount point seems less intuitive to me.

      • ssm@lemmy.sdf.org
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        4 months ago

        well diskletters/numbers can change between boots and hardware configurations, and unless you have a good label for the partition, this is the only way I can think of to name your permanent mount points that isn’t problematic/incorrect in some other way. This will always work correctly with any amount of partitions with any amount of disks; and it’s not exactly hard to get the DUID of a disk, at least on OpenBSD. It’s also highly scriptable as such.