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minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoYeah, but why? You can mount a hard drive anywhere, and why not put all the cdrom and thumbdrive folders in /mnt, too?
minus-squareDalaryous@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months ago/media is for removable drives. If you mount something there, file managers like Gnome will show you the “eject” or “disconnect” button. /mnt drives show up as regular network drives without that “eject” functionality.
minus-squareumbraroze@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months ago/mnt is meant for volumes that you manually mount temporarily. This used to be basically the only way to use removable media back in the day. /media came to be when the automatic mounting of removable media became a fashionable thing. And it’s kind of the same to this day. /media is understood to be managed by automounters and /mnt is what you’re supposed to mess with as a user.
Yeah, but why?
You can mount a hard drive anywhere, and why not put all the cdrom and thumbdrive folders in /mnt, too?
/media is for removable drives. If you mount something there, file managers like Gnome will show you the “eject” or “disconnect” button.
/mnt drives show up as regular network drives without that “eject” functionality.
/mnt is meant for volumes that you manually mount temporarily. This used to be basically the only way to use removable media back in the day.
/media came to be when the automatic mounting of removable media became a fashionable thing.
And it’s kind of the same to this day. /media is understood to be managed by automounters and /mnt is what you’re supposed to mess with as a user.