I recently found myself with two drives, an SSD and an HDD to devote to a single Linux install. This led to much deliberation regarding drive partitioning schemes. The simple solution would have been to put a /home/ partition on the HDD. However, I didn’t want my config files, scripts, documents, games, etc. on the slower HDD. I wanted to relegate the HDD to storing files that didn’t necessarily need the speed. I decided my pictures, videos, music and VMs could all live on the HDD. I partitioned the HDD, created folders with the relevant names, and put my files on the drive.

I had a problem though. When I opened the Pictures folder in my home directory, it was empty. Even though my pictures, etc. were on a separate drive from my home folder, I still wanted my pictures, etc. to show up there in Nautilus. Read on to learn how you too can link folders in your home directory to another location.