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)
You usually should go with the symlinks for a normal usage. There’re marginal use cases where you mount a folder, like modifying permissions, attributes, with not straight to learn tools like bindfs.
You mount a filesystem (container), whereas a folder is something contained in a filesystem (IOW, not a filesystem)
Thank You.
IOW
?
(Personal preference) I would symlink them as subdirectories, so not
~/Downloads
but e.g.~/Downloads/shared
. This way you can unmount the NTFS drive at will, and still have a functional directory.Thanks for the idea.
Which one is more beneficial?
(Personal preference)
So, No Difference?