• 4am@lemm.ee
    6·
    2 months ago

    I think /mnt is where you manually mount a hard drive or other device if you’re just doing it temporarily, and /media has sub folders for stuff like cdrom drives or thumb drives?

    • superkret@feddit.org
      31·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, but why?
      You can mount a hard drive anywhere, and why not put all the cdrom and thumbdrive folders in /mnt, too?

      • Dalaryous@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        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.

      • Magiilaro@feddit.org
        5·
        2 months ago

        It gets even more complicated nowadays because most DE will mount removable drives somewhere in folders like /run/$USER/

      • umbraroze@lemmy.world
        3·
        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.