Both of my SSDs are mounted via fstab in /mnt/ with x-gvfs-name so it looks a bit tidier.
But if this is not the way, I need some more education.
Yeah I did the same with GUI. But I'm asking about the mount point. Should I just mount it in /mnt and call it a day?
Using GUI still ads the mount point and chosen rules to fstab so it doesn’t matter how it got there, if it is in the fstab it will persist.
Still, the location. Everywhere I’ve checked, it just stated to go for /mnt/ and voilà. I guess the main thing is understanding what mounting is, as Windows just shows you a partition and treats it as its own tree, UNIX system treats everything as one giant tree, growing from / “root” directory. Technically, probably, you can mount it almost wherever you want to, but /mnt/ is just the “good / common practice”.
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Good discussion here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/22215/why-have-both-mnt-and-media
The new standard is that /media is where the system mounts removable media, and /mnt is for you to mount things manually.
and
Another important difference not mentioned yet is that devices mounted under
/mntwill not appear in Nautilus' left pane, whilst those mounted under/media(as well as auto-detected devices that are not mounted yet) will.
Thank You for the details.
I mount my extra drives in sub-folders of /mnt, so for example /mnt/backup
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