Re: Symlinking or hard linking additional storage to /home directories

From	rhkramer@gmail.com
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Subject	Re: Symlinking or hard linking additional storage to /home directories
Date	2016-11-13 14:10 +0100
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On Saturday, November 12, 2016 11:45:12 PM David Wright wrote:
> 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.

Just to suggest another alternative, I put all of what I call my "real user 
data" (that is things like photos, documents, ...) under a different top level 
directory with subdirectories like the following:

/rhk <my user id>
/rhk/photos
/rhk/documents
...

I do this to, among other things, separate user configuration data (typically 
hidden in /home/rhk) from "real user data".  Before I did that, I used to do 
some dumb things.  One of the things that is easy to do is move my "real user 
data" to other machines with no worry about messing up user configuration data 
on such other machines.

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Re: Symlinking or hard linking additional storage to /home  directories Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 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 Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-11-12 19:40 +0100
      Re: Symlinking or hard linking additional storage to /home  directories Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-11-12 20:20 +0100
  Re: Symlinking or hard linking additional storage to /home directories David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-13 05:50 +0100
    Re: Symlinking or hard linking additional storage to /home directories rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-13 14:10 +0100

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