On 11/12/2016 10:09 AM, Robert Menes wrote: > 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.
I mount my drives under /mnt/drivename and symlink into those. In my file server, I bind mount subdirectories under /var/local and /var/cache. I mount Samba client shares under /mnt/sharename and /home/username/sharename, and symlink into those. David