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Now I have one more question, and this is for Fred or Stan. Should any physical directories named Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Video, etc., remain on the actual /home mount?

My process was to mkdir on the new drive, delete the old directory in /home/user and when I created the link the directory was visible in the /home/user just writing to somewhere else.

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As I thought. Now may I also assume that you use the chown command to re-create the ownership and group-membership structure of each specific user directory in the new drive? And also use chmod to re-create the permissions structure? I'm familiar enough with chown and chmod. I've used them often enough in my days as a volunteer developer on other sites that use UNIX.

In any event, let me guess: whatever you create and set in the new drive, no re-installation will ever alter. Thereafter you remove any directories in /home/user (where /user/ is the name of a user account) and re-establish the links, right?

I should have figured one thing: I do this for everything that I used to copy over from one computer to the next when I would break in a new(er) computer with (of necessity) a fresh (first!) installation of Fedora. That included all the named directories, any other top-level directories I created, and /home/user/.thunderbird in every account that used Thunderbird regularly. (Same with Kmail, for any KDE user who uses the "native" browser and e-mail client.)

Temlakos