Video: My Home Folder Setup (and Disk Manager)

[dolphin_oracle]

My Home Folder Setup (and Disk Manager)

[richb]

I implemented the home folders to symlinks to my data partition based on a previous video where you mentioned it. Did it manually. Great tip.

[Gaer Boy]

Another good video, D_O, and that's a great script. I use almost exactly the same symlinked data system and setting it up on each new install takes me longer than your whole video.

Not any more! I will adapt that script straight away.

Phil

[asqwerth]

Great video, D_O.

Would it be possible to post the whole text of your script with all the various options?

I probably won't use the symlink method since I automount my Data partition and directly download/save stuff to its folders from all my distros. But the other commands you have in your script look intriguing.

[dolphin_oracle]

I am away from pc at the moment but I'll send up the script later.

[dolphin_oracle]

here's the script

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#!/bin/bash
#copy to home folder, make executable

cd ~
rm -d Pictures
rm -d Downloads
rm -d Documents
rm -d Music
rm -d Videos
ln -s /media/datapart/Pictures /home/dolphin/Pictures
ln -s /media/datapart/Downloads /home/dolphin/Downloads
ln -s /media/datapart/Documents /home/dolphin/Documents
ln -s /media/datapart/wip /home/dolphin/wip
ln -s /media/datapart/Music /home/dolphin/Music
ln -s /media/datapart/Videos /home/dolphin/Videos
ln -s /media/datapart/Dropbox /home/dolphin/Dropbox
ln -s /media/datapart/virtual_box_files /home/dolphin/VirtualBox\ VMs

#setup fancy prompts
# fancy prompts - add
#source /usr/local/bin/fancy-prompts.bash
#prompt-fancy
## to ~/.bashrc
#use prompt-usage for more options

echo "#fancy-prompts" >>~/.bashrc
echo "source /usr/local/bin/fancy-prompts.bash" >>~/.bashrc
echo "prompt-fancy" >>~/.bashrc

#set compositor to on in MX/XFCE
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/use_compositing -s true

#other info
#these are not commands, but notes I keep for easy setup
 
#fstab line for ntfs-3g device - use disk manager
#uid=1000,gid=users,dmask=002,fmask=113,auto,comment=x-gvfs-show,locale=en_US.UTF-8

#option of intel wireless LED light to stop blinking
#place option line in /etc/modprobe.d/intel-wifi.conf 
#options iwlwifi led_mode=1

#commandline for dropdown terminal - put in the Keyboard Shortucts area
#dropdown terminal - xfce4-terminal --hide-menubar --hide-borders --drop-down

I have some commented notes in there as well, like for the fstab options line for my datapartition and the option for the intel wireless led to stop blinking constantly. Those aren't commands, just options I keep so everything I need for setup stays together.

[asqwerth]

Thank you very much!

New things to try out......

[Adrian]

I have a very similar approach, the only difference is that I don't use a NTFS partition (not really a Windows user) also I have much of my stuff in Dropbox so I have a bunch of symlinks from there.