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,
It doesn't matter where I mount.
Mount certain folders directly into home other. (like mounting /mnt/data/music to ~/music)
Mount the disk (if you ask me at /media/nameofdir) and configure ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs (99% of that time that would be the .config dir in your home lol) and define each XDG_***_DIR= to the respective directory in the path of the mounted disk, no need to make symlinks, though you might need to because there is likely many apps that don't follow xdg specs.
I would really appreciate a GUI way
I know gnome-disks has a GUI way to change the mount options, I don't know how good it is though.