My understanding was that /mnt was for permanent mounts and /media was for removable media but that may just be my long running head canon.
I also use /net for NFS but I don't think that's ever been standardized as best practice. Timothy Scoppetta P: 845-459-3002 E: [email protected] On Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 16:51 Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > I used to mount external drives (including USB flash drives) on /mnt. > Several years ago a more knowledgable than I am SysAdmin told me to use > /media instead. As far as I've ever known the only difference between the > two mount points is that the latter has two more characters to type. > > Just out of curiosity, since the PLUG list is filled with an abundance of > linux > gurus, are there any meaningful diffences between the two? > > Regards, > > Rich >
