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#1 2023-07-02 17:54:15
- winyf
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Best place to mount an internal second hard drive?
Hello. I'm wondering where to mount this hard drive, whether it be to /media or /mnt or some folder in ~? Also, what permissions should I use? Thank you in advance.
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#2 2023-07-02 18:57:04
- Trilby
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Re: Best place to mount an internal second hard drive?
Best for what? What do you want to do with the drive / how do you want to use it?
You can mount it wherever you want with whatever permissions you want.
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#3 2023-07-02 19:09:47
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Re: Best place to mount an internal second hard drive?
I'm old school, I use /mnt/data
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#4 2023-07-02 20:05:15
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Re: Best place to mount an internal second hard drive?
Best for what? What do you want to do with the drive / how do you want to use it?
You can mount it wherever you want with whatever permissions you want.
Documents, movies, and other large files. Maybe steam games as well if I run out of space.
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#5 2023-07-02 20:12:47
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Re: Best place to mount an internal second hard drive?
Documents, movies, and other large files. Maybe steam games as well if I run out of space.
To be used by a single user or multiple users?
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#6 2023-07-02 20:30:08
- Trilby
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Re: Best place to mount an internal second hard drive?
Are you at risk of running out of space on your primary drive? If so, what's leading the way in using the space that you could offload to the other HDD? Again, not only is there really no "best" place, but it's impossible to even give any sound advice without knowing what the HDD is needed for.
If your current drive is not even close to being used up, then the "best place" to mount the new one is nowhere.
If it doesn't meet a need or serve a purpose, then don't use it. If it does meet a need, then the need that it is addressing will inform where to mount it.
But most broadly, you can mount it at one generic location (e.g., /mnt/data as noted above) and have directories on that drive that are then bind-mounted to other strategic locations (perhaps ~/Documents, ~/Media, ~/ReallyNotPorn, ...)
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