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/musicto~/music)
Not related to your question exactly, but if you want certain “special” folders (Downloads, Music etc.) to be in specific places, it might be worth setting up xdg data dirs to the appropriate location.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories
Thank You.
This helped me. But would you suggest XDG or creating Symlinks?
I’d go with symlinks, so both you and software not strictly following standards know where to put and find stuff.
Thank you.
Honestly, whichever one you want. You could probably continue down the rabbit hole of which option is “better” or more closely fits some idealised standard. But ultimately, both methods solve your problem well enough.
Thanks.