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Written by mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works on 2025-01-07 at 17:35

Where should files for a NAS + nedia server be stored

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Written by ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com on 2025-01-07 at 17:41

I checked my local backup server and I have two directories:

/home/share for backup files

/home/app data for backup appdata

My main server which unfortunately runs unraid is structured like

/mnt/user/array/media

/mnt/user/array/Nextcloud

/mnt/cache_ssd/appdata

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Written by MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 2025-01-07 at 17:49

I mount extra storage under /mnt/ and store stuff like media in there.

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Written by deegeese@sopuli.xyz on 2025-01-07 at 18:16

And make symlinks for large collections, like ~/photos -> /mnt/nas/photos

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Written by MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 2025-01-07 at 19:02

Interesting, are you accessing files directly on the NAS or something like that?

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Written by deegeese@sopuli.xyz on 2025-01-07 at 20:48

You want the big files to live on the NAS, but be navigable from your home dir for convenience and to discourage saving to the local disk.

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Written by MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 2025-01-07 at 22:40

Oh I see, you mean you mount the NAS storage into /home?

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Written by jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works on 2025-01-08 at 00:21

Not quite - He’s saying to mount the NAS under /mnt/ and to create a symlink under /home/ to go directly to /mnt/nas/photos

If you’re on KDE Plasma / Dolphin, this can be done here:

and put something like this in there

This will create a folder that goes directly to /mnt/nas/pictures, but you can put it anywhere.

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Written by SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world on 2025-01-08 at 12:37

Gosh FINALLY this is starting to make sense. Thanks for your effort!

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Written by needanke@feddit.org on 2025-01-09 at 22:49

A bit offtopic:

What theme is that? I was woundering why you would put windows screenshots under a comment about dolphin for a second.

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Written by jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works on 2025-01-10 at 00:22

Haha, it’s PlasmaXDark - store.kde.org/p/1367172

I genuinely like the look and feel of Windows.

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Written by SpikesOtherDog@ani.social on 2025-01-07 at 18:39

/mint/ is where I would put this. Only exception would be if I had a service I was providing, like a media player server, and then I might mount it at /srv/

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Written by normalexit@lemmy.world on 2025-01-07 at 18:49

Personally I wouldn’t worry too much about where you mount the volume, I use /storage on my boxes because I is easy to remember and sounds good to me. I also typically make a storage group that I give access to manage the files in the volume vs having my user own everything.

I wouldn’t put it in home just because you are considering sharing with others.

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