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My /home is also on a separate filesystem, so in principle I don't like to mounting data under there, because then I cannot unmount /home (e.g. for fsck purposes) unless I unmount also all the other filesystems there. I keep all my filesystems on LVM.
So I just mount to /mnt and use symlinks.
Exception: sshfs I often mount to home.
So you suggest not to mount like the guy above said
/home/stoy/videos
?And suggest symlinks instead?
Yes, just mount to
/mnt/videos
and symlink that as needed.I guess there are some benefits in mounting directly to
$HOME
, though, such asfind
/fd
work "as expected", and also permissions will be limited automatically per the$HOME
permissions (but those can be adjusted manually).For finding files I use
plocate
, though, so I wouldn't get that marginal benefit from mounting below$HOME
.Thank you.