*/media/NewDrive/Wherever/ in both examples. I also assumed your username was 'mike'. If it's not, use your username On Jan 28, 2013 12:04 PM, "Patrick Callahan" wrote: > So there are two ways of doing this (besides changing your XDG Pictures > folder), and one involves symbolic links, and the other involves bind > mounts. You shouldn't have to do both. Here's the symbolic link way: > > cp -r ~/Pictures /media/NewDrive/Wherever > rm -rf ~/Pictures > ln -s /media/NewDrive/Wherever/Pictures ~/Pictures > > I don't prefer that method, because some file searching tools and such > don't follow symbolic links by default. I use bind mounts: > > cp -r ~/Pictures /media/NewDrive/Wherever > rm -rf ~/Pictures/* > > (then add the following line to your fstab without quotation marks) : > "/media/NewDrive/Wherever/Pictures /home/mike/Pictures none bind 0 0" > Then 'sudo mount ~mike/Pictures'. It should mount automatically on boot > after that. > > Either method should work, but you should only use one. > On Jan 28, 2013 12:47 AM, "Michael Havens" wrote: > >> in this situation do I add the >> >> mount /mnt/ >> >> command to fstab or what is the new standard? I mean I thought it might >> be mounted in /media but I was wrong. Thn I opened the drive and it still >> wasn't mounted in media so I don't know what to do. >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >>> thanks Ed. I was thinking it might be that easy. >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Ed wrote: >>> >>>> ln -s works for me - get the details from the man page. Besides, a >>>> symbolic link is easier than changing the XDG designation for your >>>> Pictures directory: >>>> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html >>>> >>>> just make sure your link has the same name as your current XDG >>>> Pictures directory and you shouldn't have any problems. >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Michael Havens >>>> wrote: >>>> > I want to move my pictures folder to another folder in another >>>> partition. >>>> > How do I tell the computer that when I click on the pictures folder >>>> icon >>>> > (the folder with the polaroid on it) that I want to go to this >>>> directory in >>>> > the other partition? >>>> > :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> > >>>> > --------------------------------------------------- >>>> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >