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[–] Laser@feddit.org 32 points 3 months ago (3 children)

A good first approximation.

So where in this setup would you mount a network share? Or am additional hard drive for storage? The latter is neither removable nor temporary. Also /run is quite more than what this makes it seem (e.g. user mounts can be located there), there is practically only one system path for executables (/usr/bin)...

Not saying that the graphic is inherently wrong or bad, but one shouldn't think it's the end all be all.

[–] Eideen@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I do /volumX for additional hard drives.

For most network share I use /mnt/$server.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 9 points 3 months ago

For most network share I use /mnt/$server.

I use /mnt/$proto/$server, though that level of organization was probably overkill. Whatever...

I do /volumX for additional hard drives.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago

Or /home/me/drive

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I'm gonna blow everyone's mind.... I have my Linux system in a relatively small 4gb drive, and my home in a 4Tb drive. I mount my 4tb drive to /home/me as someone already said.

If my SSD for my OS takes a shit as people say, all you do is install it again, change fstab to swap the home directory and you're back in business like nothing happened. That's like 10 minutes install time on a good SSD these days. The other guy who mentioned this, didn't point this out. The idea of separating my home folder into its own drive didn't occur to me for years and years of using Linux. Every wrong update I was there copying home like a total windows 11 noob. I also install my extra drives and shares on /mnt, that's standard.

On debian when i mount an ftp server through my file browser it uses gvfs

This will mount it to /run/user/1000/gvfs/ftp:host=,port=,user=