Question about mounting a data partition directly in /home/user

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While it is perfectly fine to have /home/$USER as a mount point, or even /home, I prefer to have as a mount point some subdirectory inside /home/$USER.

Something like /home/$USER/Storage…

There are two reasons why I like that:

  1. I’m using an SSD for my root filesystem, and I have /home/$USER/ on that SSD. It’s beneficial to have .config and many other such directories on a fast drive. On the other hand, pictures, documents, videos, and other files that takes up a lot of space, but quick access is typically not crucial, can be on the slow HDD. I can organise them with symlinks so that /home/$USER/Pictures is actually /home/$USER/Storage/Pictures, etc…
  2. If this HDD dies (and they all die eventually), I can still boot up my DE with all the configuration. If the SSD dies, then I have to reinstall the OS anyway, so who cares…
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