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)

  • netizen@programming.dev
    3·
    4 months ago

    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)

  • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    (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.

    • gpstarman@lemmy.todayOP
      1·
      4 months ago

      Thanks for the idea.

      Which one is more beneficial?

      (Personal preference)

      So, No Difference?