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Mounting Folders VS Symlinks? (self.linux4noobs)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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 2 months ago

Thank You.

Actually I'm asking about mounting, not creating Symlinks.

I'm using Nemo.