kyrios If you like...please enjoy 🙂 However, the guide is to create a directory and mount over it...if you prefer /bin/newdir as your mount point...all power to you.
I mean I wouldn't...but if you want to, feel free. I KNOW you know better, but if someone does something stupid, they learn, right ?

      dbarron Yes we all learn from our mistakes!
      But still I try to avoid making (some of) them... or not because I said something wrong for /mnt
      See reference here for /mnt and there for /media

          kyrios It is interesting that nowhere it is mentioned about what location is good to add other permanent discs.

          /mnt : Mount point for a temporarily mounted filesystem
          /media : Mount point for removeable media

          both locations are for different purpose. I like @CraigMatze idea of creating /drive folder for mounting this discs or partitions.

              algent It's basically because that's just convention. There's no rules or probably even best practices. I "grew up" using /mnt, but I've seen people habitually use all sorts of mount points.

                algent It's also because it depends on the aim of the permanent partition.
                For example, an enterprise may use an image to install its servers and have the home directories on a NFS volume, so the server could be reinstalled without the user data & settings are touched. -> This permanent mount point would be /home.
                Personally I have a few mount points for my NAS on /mnt/... backup, multimedia, public, ... I consider them as permanent although they are not since they are only available when my laptop is @ home and connected to the LAN.

                  The purpose of this partition is to use it as a place for solbuild to practice building packages. It is important for me that monting to/mnt or somewhere else like /drive, it is not a problem.

                    algent Personally I build packages into VMs I have repo virtual disk image (.vdi) that I share across the few virtual machines I use and I always mount it on /repo

                      I think the suggested location in Debian distros (and maybe standard) is /srv for permanent disks.

                        Nibb31 That's for files you're serving out to your LAN like file-shares etc.