On Sat 12 Nov 2016 at 19:15:29 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote: > Le duodi 22 brumaire, an CCXXV, Robert Menes a écrit : > > My question is this: which is the better path to take? Symlinking or hard > > linking another drive to ~/Music and ~/Videos? I understand that I > > will need to edit /etc/fstab and all; that's fine. Just curious as to > > whether symlinks or hard links are the way to go. > > You can not do hardlinks across different filesystems, so that part is > settled. > > You could not do hardlinks on directories either, you would have to work > plain file per plain file. That would be a pain. > > You could use bind mounts, but I really do not recommend it. > > I suggest mounting the extra storage somewhere like /data and using > symlinks; that is what I do.
I agree with all that, but I avoid making symlinks. If I do a recursive search of my home directory, there's really no point in trawling through 300GB of photographs, so they're all under /home/photos. I put them under /home just to avoid adding directories to / but they're not users in the normal sense: I own all the files. Similarly video, sound etc. Cheers, David.
