I'm a beginner at all this, so please bear with me. I'm sure this is really common knowledge.

Basically, my drive is split into various partitions. Anyway, an external partition seems to exist both on my main computer drive inside the `/mnt` folder, as well as in in `/media/username` if I decide to mount it manually (I'm assuming this is what's happening).

What's confusing me, is why the files would exist inside the `/mnt` folder inside the computer folder, because it seems redundant. It's like, doubling up on the files, and I've intentionally made my main OS partition small, so that I can put the files elsewhere.

From what I understand, I set an option to automount the external partition upon login (and I assume that is why it's in `/mnt`. When I do it manually, I think that's when it goes into `/media`.

Basically, how can I use this external partition without it creating an entry inside `/mnt`? It just seems pointless and defeats the purpose of having an external partition to begin with.

I also want the partition to auto mount, so I don't have to mount it manually each time (also so I can access it via the command line easily)

I'm auto-mounting through the normal disks app.

https://preview.redd.it/jfry7qy02c4b1.png?width=756&format=png&auto=webp&s=69b8ed5cb3f642e23de1d4315abb81569c40d4ea

Am I possibly misunderstanding the concept of mounting in linux?