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/media or /mnt or anywhere ? Discussion.
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The filesystem is organized to store data by its type, not by the physical storage. In DOS/Windows you stick to separate "disks", but not in Unix-like OSes. This approach is inconvenient in case of removable media, that's why
/mediaexists. And/mntis not suited for any particular purpose, just for the case when you need to manually mount some filesystem to perform occasional actions, that normally never happens.That's what usually goes to
/home/<username>. Maybe mount that device directly to/home? Or, if you want to extend your existent/homepartition, use LVM or btrfs to join partitions from various drives. Or mount the partition to some subdirectory of/home/<username>, or even split it and mount its parts to/home/<username>/Downloads,/home/<username>/Moviesetc. So you keep the logic of filesystem layout and don't need to remember where you saved some file (in/home/<username>/Downloadsor in/whatever-mountpoint-you-use/downloads).Thanks bro. I think that's what I'm gonna do.