http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/18725/
I have a second hard drive where I have a documents, music, pictures, videos, etc folder and that is never formatted with the OS. In vista, you can change the path on the personal folders shortcuts and the system automatically changes every thing related to those folders, including moving files from the current location to the new one, without messing the files already existing.

In Ubuntu, the process is a lot more triky, if it is even possible to do what I just described.

[14 votes] Solution #1: Simple way to define personal folders post instalation


[5 votes] Solution #2: Easy to use front end to LVM on the Live CD


[1 votes] Solution #3: Use UnionFS or AUFS instead of #1.


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1) Its better to have all user data in one place and not scattered about. Remapping of personal folders allows this scattering effect. For instance, may be you remap Documents and Pictures and forget about Desktop. Then you reformat the OS partition and you thought that the Desktop was also remapped and thus you loose all files on your Desktop. This would not happen as easily with mounts \home on a separate partition.

2) With me at least I usually end up having more than one user (even though I am the only person using my computer). So its better to have all new users data automatically on a safe area. So again separate home makes this easy.]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:26:45 +0000