[Solved] New Internal Drive: Change Mount Point

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[Solved] New Internal Drive: Change Mount Point

Postby cork » May 4th, '14, 21:21

Mageia 4, KDE

I added a spare 1.3 TB hard drive to my system, created a single partition with fdisk, formatted it as ext4, and added it to the /etc/fstab file with the mount point /media/Storage. It's working fine there, but as I read more I found that "/media/XXX" is probably not the preferred place, and I began thinking that it would be nice to have it show up in the Home directory. Is it possible to create the /home/Storage directory and change the fstab entry for the drive to that directory without breaking something? Or can I just leave all of this alone and add it to "Places" in Dolphin somehow? Sorry for the beginner questions - I'm definitely in the "pure beginner still learning and trying to avoid breaking things" mode.

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Re: New Internal Drive: Change Mount Point

Postby alf » May 4th, '14, 21:48

just do a
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ln -s /media/Storage Storage
in your home directory. May be you have to adjust the access rights afterwards to write into that directory.
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Re: New Internal Drive: Change Mount Point

Postby doktor5000 » May 4th, '14, 21:50

You can do both - depends just on taste.
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Re: [Solved] New Internal Drive: Change Mount Point

Postby cork » May 5th, '14, 21:02

Thank you both for the responses - new concepts to explore!
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