pictures folder

[Patrick Callahan]

*/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" <patrick.pxc.c at gmail.com>
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" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> in this situation do I add the
>>
>>      mount <drive> /mnt/<target>
>>
>> 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 <bmike1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> thanks Ed. I was thinking it might be that easy.
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Ed <plug at 0x1b.com> 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 <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>>>> 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~(-:
>>>> >
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