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Mounting Folders VS Symlinks? (lemmy.today)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev
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I have a NTFS drive for Storage, which is shared between WIn 11.

I want to change the location of (or replace) ~/Downloads, ~/Music, etc..,.

Note that the link to made is between NTFS and EXT4.

I found two ways while searching.

   1.Creating **Symlinks** in `~` with target pointed to folders in NTFS drive.

   2. **Mounting** the NTFS folders **directly** to`~/Downloads`, `~/Music`, etc..,.

Which one should I do? Which one is more beneficial?

Also how to mount folders to other folders (option 2) ? (I would really appreciate a GUI way)

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You usually should go with the symlinks for a normal usage. There're marginal use cases where you mount a folder, like modifying permissions, attributes, with not straight to learn tools like bindfs.

You mount a filesystem (container), whereas a folder is something contained in a filesystem (IOW, not a filesystem)

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