How do I mount the documents folder on a different partition?

Question

I'm new to unity and trying to harmonize my dual boot between windows and ubuntu by setting the documents, pictures, videos, etc folders onto a storage partition, instead of in the home folder. I added this line to my fstab

# storage mount
UUID=66E53AEC54455DB2 /media/storage/    ntfs-3g        auto,user,rw 0 0

Rebooted, then went to configure my subfolders like this:

# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
# 
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="/media/storage/Downloads"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="/media/storage/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="/media/storage/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="/media/storage/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="/media/storage/Videos"

Rebooted again, but this didn't do the trick. I can get to media/storage/Documents from the filesystem, but when I go to documents under places, it's still located on the wrong dirve. nothing I save appears on the storage partitition unless i directly put it there, and nothing i put in the storage partition appears in the documents folder under places.

Answer 1

During Ubuntu setup you can change the mount longs of folders. Backup all information on your Ubuntu partition, and boot to the install disc. When prompted for where to put Ubuntu, choose "Something Else" to bring up the advanced partition editor. Set the mount point for / where your current ubuntu install is. Then select the storage drive and set the mount point to /home/username/Documents, /home/username/Pictures, etc, replacing username with your username.

Answer 2

Check permissions on folder /media/storage/Documents. Your user should be set as the proprietary for the folder.

I'm not sure if this type of permissions can be set for NTFS partitions contents. If not, try using ext2 filesystem for the storage partitions, which is now supported by Win7.