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)

  • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    I don’t think this is a bad question at all, personally I would prefer to mount the drive once and symlink folders for a couple reasons:

    1. It’s easier to automate
    2. it’s theoretically faster (to initialize) as symlinks are effectively free
    3. I personally like symlink syntax more than mount syntax :P

    One possible con to symlinks is that certain (linux native) software can misbehave when it has to interact with them, but this is a fairly uncommon issue. Stuff ran through wine or proton should support them just fine, as they are abstracted away.

    • seaQueue@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      bind mounts don’t usually have the problems that symlinks do. The only time I’ve had issues involve container systems like docker or flatpak.