Can I change personal folder locations?

Solution 1:

This can be accomplished with symlinks. But first, you need to setup your system so that the D: partition is automounted every time you boot Ubuntu.

Run sudo blkid to see the UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) for all of your partitions. Then you will have to edit your fstab with this information.

fstab is a file located in /etc/ which determines which drives and partitions should be mounted every time the system starts. Before you do anything else, make a backup of the one you have:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup

Then, edit fstab (with for example sudo nano or gksu gedit) and add this line:

UUID=<UUID of your D: partition> /media/Media ntfs defaults 0 0

Make sure that the mount location, /media/Media, exists before doing this, then reboot.

Now it's time to create symlinks. You will need to remove the personal folders first, as otherwise the symlinks will be placed inside them instead of replacing them. Make sure to backup any files you have there before running these commands:

rm -rf ~/Videos && ln -s /media/Media/Tesla/Videos ~/Videos

Repeat for all the folders you want to appear in your Home directory.

Solution 2:

Ubuntu tweak might be helpful (I've never tried it on 11.10 but it works on 10.10) there is a section for Default folder Locations in Ubuntu tweak and you can change the folders, But I think you may need to mount the partitions after each reboot for access files through Home folder :-)