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
)
Seconding this. As it’s a mount that is explicitly for your user, you might as well mount it where it’s most convenient for you.
If, on the other hand, it was a mountpoint for the entire system, I’d keep it in /mnt and go the symlink route - I’m old fashioned, and I like to use /mnt for as much as possible. I find it more tidy that way. On that note, I’m not 100% sold on /media yet
I’m sorry, but which one exactly?
So, mounting folders just do that for a single user whom created the mount point?