Third hard drive mounting?

[jg6913]

I am a fairly new user of Linux but have worked out most problems myself previously. My question is simply this, which mount point should be used for a third hard drive in Linux when it's intended as a storage location for a variety of files, including entertainment media?

I am using internal 36GB Raptor HD for Root, a 250GB HD for Swap and Home, currently. I want to mount my third drive, which is 500GB. Most l resources I have found don't seem to mention this particular setup. Any suggestions? Thank you.

[yancek]

Did you partition your third drive yet? Do you want just one huge partition?

Create the partition on the third drive (sdc?) whatever size you want.
Then create a mount point.
Log in as root and enter: mkdir /mnt/Media_Files
You will then need to put an entry in your /etc/fstab file so the partition is mounted at boot.

[Jonathan183]

I suggest you use Yast->system->partitioner to sort out the drive mounting ... it will automatically create the folders for you.
It is up to you where you mount the partition to ... /data1 or /anything-else.
If you are the only system user then you could mount the drive partition to a subfolder of your home folder but it is not a good idea to do this if there are a number of users who need access to the data. If you have Windows partitions then the defaults for these are /windows/C /windows/D etc so if you are sharing the data with Windows then that may be a better place to mount the partition(s) to.

[Technarazzi]

/media or /local would be appropriate to its purposes. /srv is the main other choice, and that's for servers that share content across the Internet.

I assume you're not asking how to mount it, but what's traditional in terms of the name for the purpose you're using it for.