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Why though?
The filesystem is organized to store data by its type, not by the physical storage. In DOS/Windows you stick to separate “disks”, but not in Unix-like OSes. This approach is inconvenient in case of removable media, that’s why /media
exists. And /mnt
is not suited for any particular purpose, just for the case when you need to manually mount some filesystem to perform occasional actions, that normally never happens.
Just media files, downloads, images , music kinda stuff.
That’s what usually goes to /home/<username>
. Maybe mount that device directly to /home
? Or, if you want to extend your existent /home
partition, use LVM or btrfs to join partitions from various drives. Or mount the partition to some subdirectory of /home/<username>
, or even split it and mount its parts to /home/<username>/Downloads
, /home/<username>/Movies
etc. So you keep the logic of filesystem layout and don’t need to remember where you saved some file (in /home/<username>/Downloads
or in /whatever-mountpoint-you-use/downloads
).
Mount them where you need. Not /mnt
and not /media
. Maybe /var
or its subdirectory, or /srv
, or /
depending on what kind of data you want to store on that partition.
And not only did everything “just work” flawlessly, but it’s so much faster and more polished than I ever knew Linux to be!
Congrats, you are very lucky. But try to survive couple of version upgrades before recommending it to noobs.
Be careful if you buy a Samsung 8x0 SSD. They have long standing bugs that may cause data loss. They are worked around in the kernel, however you have to ensure that the workaround for your particular model exists in the kernel version you use.
It is not steganography. It’s just cat original.png trojan > malicious.png
.
What kind of changes? Package installation, removal and configuration? Use apt-mark showmanual
to save list of manually installed packages, dpkg --get-selections | grep 'deinstall$'
to save list of removed packages, debconf --get-selections
to save debconf package settings, backup files that you edited in /etc
. This should be enough for restoration, wouldn’t take a long time for backup and avoid risk of filesystem inconsistency.
The standard answer: don’t backup the system, automate its deployment instead. Backup only data.