I like to keep a lot of links to commonly used folders on my desktop. For safety's sake I also like to make a few partitions on my drives to keep programs and various kinds of data away from each other.
- Puppy gets its own partition.
- A swap partition is useful too.
- I like to have another partition for external programs, like POV-Ray for instance, that don't really need to be a part of the Puppy file layout. This makes re-installing later much simpler because I don't need to replace more than a couple of configuration files.
- Another partition is given over to my work stuff.
- Another is devoted data: to my collection of electronic books, useful html info I have found cruising the web, video and audio files.
As a drive can only have 4 primary partitions, this means I usually have a second hard drive.
Keeping everything separate like this brings some benefits. If anything goes wrong on one partition or drive then I lose, at most, only the stuff there. Searching and backing up are easier too.
But there is one tiny annoyance. I like to keep links to commonly used folders on my desktop, but when I boot Puppy only / is mounted. The other folders on unmounted partitions and drives appear as as an error icon.
Here is how I've solved it:
In my /root/.jwm folder I keep some shell scripts that do the trick. Here is one:
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#! /bin/sh
mount /mnt/hdb2
rox /mnt/hdb2/text/non-fiction/reference
I drop the shell script onto my desktop to make a link there. Now I give it a special folder icon to make it stand out. Here is a link to a bundle of folder icons I've made that I use a lot.
http://miriam-english.org/files/folders.tar.gz
I hope some people find this helpful.