In that case I would use an ext4 partition. Use gparted to label it, whatever, lets say "data".
Put all your data in that partition, organise it however you like, but we'll do the example with a Music folder.
Create a folder /mnt/data and make it so you own it.
Code:
sudo mkdir /mnt/data
sudo chown $USER:$USER /mnt/data
To mount the partition at boot you would need, in your /etc/fstab file
Code:
LABEL=data /mnt/data ext4 defaults 0 0
Now you need an empty Music folder in your home directory. To mount put the contents of the Music folder in your data partition in the one in your home folder you need a line
Code:
/mnt/data/Music /home/offgridguy/Music none bind
Repeat with the other folders.
You can do these fstab modifications with a command but it would be specific to your folder structure and what you want to do.
The line that mounts the partition at /mnt/media has to be before the others as the file is read one line at a time.
Always make a back up of your fstab file before you mess with it, just in case you muck it up, your system will not boot if you make a hash of it.
The process is the same for all the linux OS's, the fstab file should be the same, assuming you have the same username on all of them.
You need the same uid and gid too. If your user is the same for all the installations, and the one that was set up at install time, and all your distros are Ubuntu based then you will be fine. If not, there are potential, if not unfixable, problems.
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