How do I make a mounted drive the primary storage location for downloads?
by darthgonzo from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5387G)
Hey folks!
So in a previous post, I mentioned how I was unable to boot my system past a frozen Linux Mint splash screen (also unable to login with my user credentials even if I made it that far) so after much frustration, I actually just gave up on troubleshooting and performed a fresh installation. I'm pretty sure this issue arose from the fact that I hadn't mounted or partitioned my HDD for storage so all of my downloads went straight to the local disk (sda1 120GB) and **spoiler alert** completely filled my disk space.
So now after a fresh installation (I'm running Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia - Cinnamon), I'm hoping to avoid cluttering up my disk space by directing all downloads to my 2TB HDD, which is already mounted and ready to go. So how can I make sure that when I download software or programs, from Software Manager for example, they will be downloaded to my hard drive instead of to the local disk?
If any additional system specs or terminal information is needed, let me know and I'll provide it in this thread.
So in a previous post, I mentioned how I was unable to boot my system past a frozen Linux Mint splash screen (also unable to login with my user credentials even if I made it that far) so after much frustration, I actually just gave up on troubleshooting and performed a fresh installation. I'm pretty sure this issue arose from the fact that I hadn't mounted or partitioned my HDD for storage so all of my downloads went straight to the local disk (sda1 120GB) and **spoiler alert** completely filled my disk space.
So now after a fresh installation (I'm running Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia - Cinnamon), I'm hoping to avoid cluttering up my disk space by directing all downloads to my 2TB HDD, which is already mounted and ready to go. So how can I make sure that when I download software or programs, from Software Manager for example, they will be downloaded to my hard drive instead of to the local disk?
If any additional system specs or terminal information is needed, let me know and I'll provide it in this thread.