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  • HouseWolf
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    2 months ago

    I’m still a newbie Linux user so haven’t fully delved into Symlinks…besides bricking a VM trying it once when following a guide.

    Can I for instance link a folder where emulators or offline games store save data on my main SSD and have it automatically copied to a folder on my large HDD?

    • JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 months ago

      It doesn’t copy data, no. Symlink is short for symbolic link. So it’s a pointer to another location. But it might be useful for you. Taking a guess at your goal, here’s a relevant example.

      Say you moved all of your emulation stuff stored under /media/largehdd/retroarch. You could then symlink that directory to ~/.config/retroarch like so:

      ln -s /media/largehdd/retroarch ~/.config/retroarch

      That data is still stored on the large drive but will now also show under that symlinked directory.

    • amotio@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yes you can, although this might be better done with rsync - and periodically runnind the syncing command.

      But syncthing does basically the same thing plus you can sync between multiple devices on the same network.

      I sync my laptop config with work pc this way.

      Edit: typos, damn mobile