Mounting Folders VS Symlinks?
I have a NTFS drive for Storage, which is shared between Win 11.
I want to change the location of (or replace) ~/Downloads
, ~/Music
, etc..,.
Note that the link to made is between NTFS and EXT4.
I found two ways while searching.
1.Creating **Symlinks** in `~` with target pointed to folders in NTFS drive.
2. **Mounting** the NTFS folders **directly** to`~/Downloads`, `~/Music`, etc..,.
Which one should I do? Which one is more beneficial?
Also how to mount folders to other folders (option 2) ? (I would really appreciate a GUI way)
I know this is not that important of a thing to post on Main Linux Community, but I already asked 2 linux4noobs community, and they are empty.
This is a continuation to my previous discussion, where most of the people said,
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It doesn't matter where I mount.
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Mount certain folders directly into home other. (like mounting
/mnt/data/music
to~/music
)
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Thank You.
would you suggest XDG or creating Symlinks?
Found this just for you. https://lemmy.world/post/1352601
You can do both, and both are easy.
The
user-dirs.dirs
file contains something like this:For example if you mount the disk in
/media/dirname
, it would be something like this, I'm giving it aexternal-drive
name in this example:And for the symlinks, if the drive already has the
Desktop
,Documents
, etc directories. It is as simple as this:ln -s /media/external-drive/* $HOME
That will symlink all the files in the drive to your $HOME
I suggest you do both because you might run into a program that doesn't follow XDG user directories.
Thank you.