FYI I just ran across the fairly new /run directory in Linux.
Pudge
Guess you haven’t reinstalled in a while.
On Arch, /run/media has been the default for me when it comes to external storage.
On Debian, it’s just /media, I think.
/run was added to Arch in 2011…not exactly new.
Here’s a 2011 discussion on StackExchange about it; the first answer (and the archived link it contains) explains the reasons that Arch (and other distros) implemented a tmpfs /run directory.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13972/what-is-this-new-run-filesystem
Fairly new /run directory…
To be fair, the post was made in Nov 2025, and updated in Aug 2026. xD
Wayland for example, started development about 18 years ago… 