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Symlinking or hard linking additional storage to /home directories

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Hello everyone,

My current desktop setup currently has a Debian installation on a 120GB
SSD, which
is mounted with both the EFI system partition and as / for my rig. I have a
3TB HDD
which I had mounted as /home during install.

As my desktop case still has enough space in it, I was contemplating
getting another
pair of 3TB (or maybe even 4TB!) HDDs, and have them be symlinked or hard
linked
(whichever works better) to my ~/Music and ~/Videos folders. This setup is
currently
has only one user on it (my account, aside from root). I want to do this so
that I have
more space for my media, functioning as a backup for a NAS and for keeping
larger
project files for any audio and video work I do.

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.

Thanks!

--Robert

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Symlinking or hard linking additional storage to /home directories Robert Menes <viewtiful.icchan@gmail.com> - 2016-11-12 19:20 +0100
  Re: Symlinking or hard linking additional storage to /home  directories Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-11-12 19:30 +0100
  Re: Symlinking or hard linking additional storage to /home  directories David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-11-13 02:40 +0100

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