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#1 2008-03-19 20:37:53

bomaroast
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Registered: 2008-03-17
Posts: 9

Mounting a junk drive & System Volume

This is my first post on any linux forum.  I've been using it daily for six months now and fell in love with archlinux from the moment I installed it a month ago.  Thanks to everyone that contributes to arch and the wiki!  I have two general questions that I've been unable to find an answer for.  Probably because I don't know what exactly to search for.

What is the most appropriate method for mounting a drive that has nothing but media & personal junk?
1) Mount it under the users home directory: /home/user/data
  - PROBLEM - The lost+found directory is visible.  Its not terrible but is distracting when visually scanning for folder names.
2) Mount it at /mnt/data and create symbolic links in the users home directory: /home/user/music, /home/user/school, etc.
  - PROBLEM - As far as I understand, an ftp user that is chrooted can't follow these links.  Pretty essential for how I use the drive.
3) I was thinking maybe I could partition it and make it my home drive.  I don't think that would answer the question or solve the problems though.

MPlayer is the best video player for my simple purposes I've used so far, but I hate that it alters my main system volume.  VLC and Amarok both use independent volumes.  Is there a way to do it in MPlayer?  What is this called: audio streams?  I'd be happy with VLC but for some reason it fudges up video when using the slider bar to navigate through a file.  Once you select your destination the video color is reversed for a few seconds but only in dark areas.  MPlayer doesn't do this at all.

Last edited by bomaroast (2008-03-19 20:41:27)

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