minus-squareumbraroze@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Linux Directory Structure - FHSlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·13 days 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. linkfedilink
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/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.