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tbh I don't think it matters, so wherever you feel like doing it. I just leave it where the distro or file manager defaults to: in Ubuntu-based distros that's
/media/$USER/mount-name
. For mounts shared across users you could drop the$USER
.Since FHS doesn't specify where "non-removable media" should go, I don't think it makes sense to adopt this recommendation as
/media
should be removable, but rather, "in case the media IS removable, then mount it to/media/
".