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Reorganizing $HOME (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking to restructure my home folder. Have for a long time used the standard XDG user directory structure ($HOME/{Desktop,Documents,Downloads...}) and it has become a mess. Also the capitalized directory names are inconvenient for a multitude of reasons.

I'll have to set the XDG user variables accordingly.

Anyone gone through a process of reorganizing their home directory structure beyond the standard XDG user directory structure. Did you note any oddities refraining from mentioned standards?

Here's my initial idea:

$HOME
├── desktop
├── documents
│   ├── public
│   └── templates
├── downloads
├── media
│   ├── audio
│   │   ├── bleeps
│   │   └── music
│   ├── e-books
│   ├── graphics
│   │   ├── 3d
│   │   ├── raster
│   │   │   ├── palettes
│   │   │   └── wallpapers
│   │   ├── screenshots
│   │   └── vector
│   ├── photos
│   └── videos
├── sites
└── software
    ├── bin
    ├── games
    │   └── roms
    └── git

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I really like the default structure, the 0nly thing that bothers me is that now that I have a second HDD I can't share that structure between the tw0 discs, so now I am unsure on how to use my second HDD. I think I'll use the sec0nd for films that I don't care ab0ut keeping after seeding.

The 0nly thing I can say about your structure is that I w0uldn't use it because I need a Picture folder, because I download a lot of them and they aren't photos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

If you don't want to treat the second hard drive as separate. You might consider https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs or alternatives to create a virtual union drive.

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