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,

  1. It doesn’t matter where I mount.

  2. Mount certain folders directly into home other. (like mounting /mnt/data/music to ~/music)

  • neidu2
    1·
    1 month ago

    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

    • gpstarman@lemmy.todayOP
      1·
      1 month ago

      Seconding this.

      I’m sorry, but which one exactly?

      As it’s a mount that is explicitly for your user

      So, mounting folders just do that for a single user whom created the mount point?