17.10 personal folder location

Question

I have Ubuntu installed and running fine on my 500gb SSD and I want to set up my second hard drive. But I don't just want a new location in my file manager (nemo) I want to set the hard drive location to /home/$USER/Videos that way when I go to that location and open it the hard drive with all my media on it opens. the second hard drive is NTFS for the moment but that can change if necessary, it doesn't have to be visible to windows but I would prefer it if possible.

I've looked into several things including Ubuntu tweak but it inst around for 17.10 and also this Change default user folders path?

The question you linked is still valid. – Dec 01 '17 at 01:38 — , Dec 01 '17 at 01:38

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '17 at 03:29

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I mount a 2nd disk with the following line in /etc/fstab: (Note: Your UUID= value Will Be Different - use lsblk --output="NAME,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,UUID")

UUID=362254e8-2b99-442d-8ad9-4a348bc08032 /home/w3/mnt/SP ext4 nodev,nosuid,noexec,noauto,user,rw 0 0

I have to use the noauto, and issue mount ~/mnt/SP after login, because I have an encrypted $HOME, and /home/w3/mnt/SP does not exist earlier.

I also don't want the disk mounted at all times. Since you do, you could put this in your ~/.bashrc:

if [[ $(mountpoint -q $HOME/Videos; echo $?) != 0 ]] ; 
then
    mount $HOME/Videos
fi

answered Dec 01 '17 at 03:29

waltinator

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i take it the "home/w3/mnt/SP" part of the line is the location of my drive so for me it would be /media/user/Library as the hdd is called library of or is that the location of where i want to mount it ie /home/user/Videos – Chris9540 Dec 01 '17 at 09:46
also are the "nodev,nosuid,noexec,noauto,user,rw 0 0" settings ok with an NTFS hdd your example uses ext4 – Chris9540 Dec 01 '17 at 09:48
lsblk --output="NAME,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,UUID returns
sdb
├─sdb1
└─sdb2 ntfs /media/user/Library Library 9A14124414122433 – Chris9540 Dec 01 '17 at 09:52
do i just not add noauto??? – Chris9540 Dec 01 '17 at 09:56
what are nodev,nosuid,noexec,noauto,user what am i setting when i do this?? – Chris9540 Dec 01 '17 at 09:57
They are reasons for you to read manpages: `man mount;man fstab – waltinator Dec 01 '17 at 19:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 10 '17 at 04:20

OK guys and gals hear goes. I'm not good at these so bear with.

open terminal and enter (thank to waltinator for the command)
```
lsblk --output="NAME,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,UUID"
```
this gave my harddrive id 9A14124414122433
run command (just in case)
```
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup
```

edit fstab and add

UUID=9A14124414122433 /media/Videos ntfs defaults 0 0

deleted my /home/user/Videos folder and rebooted

run command

rm -rf ~/Videos && ln -s /media/Videos ~/Videos

17.10 personal folder location

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