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Mounting Folders VS Symlinks? (self.linux4noobs)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by gpstarman to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world
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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)

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[–] gpstarman 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

the bind mount will block the umount of the NTFS drive until all binds are removed and requires the NTFS drive to be mounted for it to work. You may want to utilise the "pass" field in fstab to make it work. it is therefore slightly harder to persist.

Can you please explain more.