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change directory from /home/ubuntu/tmp to a different location (like a smb or nfs share)

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How can I change the directory from /home/ubuntu/tmp to a different location (like a smb or nfs share)?

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Wolf Geldmacher (wolf-womaro) said : 		#1

If you are using uck-gui the easiest way is to remove the ~/tmp directory and re-create is as a symbolic link to some directory on the share (i.e. in a terminal type "rmdir ~/tmp; ln -s /path/to/your/mounted/share ~/tmp"). The CLI uck- commands allow you to specify a different customization root directory as parameter.

You should be aware that, due to the way UCK works, there could be issues with some remote filesystems (I've personally never tried to use an SMB share; NFS will have to be configured to allow root access on the server side) and (depending on your network infrastructure) performance may suffer. Using an external (USB, eSATA) scratch disk with an ext[234] filesystem will probably work better.

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