pictures folder

[Michael Havens]

After a little testing I have come to understand..... all of my partitions
are mounted under /media automatically.

    "/media/bmike1/entertainment/Pictures /home/bmike1/Pictures none bind 0
0"

tells it to link the the two directories together. I have a question
though, Itested it and when I copied a file into /home/bmike1/Pictures the
file went to the desired directory. Why if I copy it to the desired
directory directly does it not go to /home/bmike1/Pictures also? It must
have to do with the order you put the the two directories in

sudo mount ~bmike1/Pictures

why is it '~bmike1/Pictures' and not '~/bmike1/Pictures'?

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Patrick Callahan
<patrick.pxc.c at gmail.com>wrote:

> */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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