On 12/16/2017 08:07 PM, stan wrote:
On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:50:57 -0500
Temlakos <temlakos(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. How can you write the linking commands so that they will execute
> automatically at startup, rather than your having to "sudo ln -s
> [source] [destination]" for every directory for every user every time
> you restart your system? (I'm likely to be shutting down and
> restarting every day and sometimes twice or three times a day,
> depending on whether I can solve the "KDE Plasma 5 system hang"
> problem with this new installation.)
Once they are set they are there until you remove them. They're like
directories, they are always there. Restarting and shutting down
doesn't affect them.
> 2. Could you give me an example of such a linking system, with names
> changed to protect your privacy?
Suppose I have a directory called /mnt/data_drive/source
where I keep source code on my data drive.
Then, in my home directory, I just have the link source, that I set up
as
ln -s /mnt/data_drive/source source
Once that is in place, if I am in my home directory I can type
cd source
and it will take me to /mnt/data_drive/source, and if I am somewhere
else I can type
cd ~/source
and it will do the same thing.
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Let me see if I understand the result:
I need to set up links to:
1. All folders that I want to hold on the data drive, including
configuration files that I want to preserve from one iteration to the
next--like .thunderbird, .firefox, .chrome, .adobe, and so on. These
would be the top-level folders, the ones in the home directory, and not
the subfolders.
2. Any file that, for whatever reason, is sitting in my home directory
and that I haven't made up my mind to place into a folder, like
Downloads or Pictures or Documents--whatever. (This might include
password files, if I can get the old Password Manager program
reinstalled. I have an rpm for that, but I don't know whether that would
install or not.)
And I must do that for every user account.
And when I do that, any folder that I create on the "data disk," the
system will find by starting from /home/[user-ident].
At least, I don't /think/ you're recommending setting up symlinks to
every single file and subfolder in a user's account! Someone (Fred
Roller, I think) said the process needs to be invisible to the user.
Question: would you preserve /all/ hidden application configuration
files on the separate drive? Or do some things deserve to reside on the
system drive and get overwritten with every clean install?
Temlakos