How to create common folders for all users in Linux

There are occasions, where you need to share certain folders from your home directories with other users on the same machine.

Let's say you and your dad are sharing a computer and each of you have your own accounts, but you both want to listen to the same music. Instead of copying your music directory to his home directory, you can do the following:

Create a new folder somewhere in system file. I chose media:

sudo mkdir /media/music/

Change the permission:

sudo chmod -R 777 /media/music/

Simply mount your music on your home directory to this folder:

mount --bind /home/username/music/ /media/music/

You need to run this command whenever you boot the computer. The best way is to add this command to /etc/rc.local in most Linux distributions.

Cheers,

Published On: Nov. 5, 2009 --- Views: 1033

Tags: linux common directory share

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