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
).
Technically, no. Until you want to mount something but find
/mnt
is busy or simply forget about this and mount something there, losing access to previously mounted stuff. The only problem is that you have to remember which mountpoint you use for particular filesystem, while the FHS is designed to avoid this and abstract from physical devices as much as possible.