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Folders? you mean directories 👀
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 eachXDG_***_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 know gnome-disks has a GUI way to change the mount options, I don't know how good it is though.
Thank You.
would you suggest XDG or creating Symlinks?
Found this just for you. https://lemmy.world/post/1352601
You can do both, and both are easy.
The
user-dirs.dirs
file contains something like this:For example if you mount the disk in
/media/dirname
, it would be something like this, I'm giving it aexternal-drive
name in this example:And for the symlinks, if the drive already has the
Desktop
,Documents
, etc directories. It is as simple as this:ln -s /media/external-drive/* $HOME
That will symlink all the files in the drive to your $HOME
I suggest you do both because you might run into a program that doesn't follow XDG user directories.
Thank you.