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by em-bee 937 days ago
right. what early distributions were doing was creating subdirectories within /mnt, but that got in the way when users wanted to mount something manually. at least it did bother me.

personally i wish /media would have stuck. i find the current paths /run/media/username/device rather unpractical. whenever i connect a data device i have to go searching for the mountpoint.
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_chu1 934 days ago
Things lile this are why I use Windows daily. I can assign a specific USB mass storage device a letter it will always use and I memorize it.
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em-bee 934 days ago
you can assign a mountpoint to specific devices on linux too. that's not a new feature.

giving sensible defaults to automatic mounts is the issue here.

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