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Beginners • Re: Root or user for HDD

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Thank you for that thargol, I shall use \mnt as my Mount Point as that is what it seems I should do.
I have also bookmaked the page for future use.

WD
It would be....

/mnt

not \mnt

the "\" character is used as a pathname separator on windows. On Linux/Unix, we use "/"

"\" is used on Linux/Unix to show that a "special" character (like a space) is meant literally rather that as a special character...It's like using quotes...but just for a single character rather than a whole string.

By default, Raspberry Pi OS auto-mounts USB devices to the directory /media/$USER when you plug them in. I give all my drives human readable disk labels, so, when I plug them in; I end up with something like...

/media/$USER/disk1
/media/$USER/disk2
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From the wiki page that thagrol posted

/media Mount points for removable media such as CD-ROMs (appeared in FHS-2.3 in 2004).
/mnt Temporarily mounted filesystems.

Up to you really...but whatever, you do; get the separator right!

Statistics: Posted by kip_the_elder — Wed Mar 19, 2025 11:13 am



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