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I am curious if there is a way to relocate the userdata folder for Kodi in Linux Mint to my storage HDD. I only have a 30 GB SSD and would like to see if I can store all that data on my HDD. I did this fairly easily in Windows via sysprep but I am a novice with Linux and I am not sure the best way to go about changing it over.


If there is a way to do this my changing things around in an xml file that would be helpful. I imagine if not this can be done by created a symbolic link between the default location and the location I would like the data stored (if that is possible in Linux)

Use a bind mount via /etc/fstab

Thanks for the tip!

I am researching it up but it seems to just make a reference to the same location at a different location rather then "redirecting" the data to a different place in the filesystem, but maybe I am not understanding it correctly.

Is it possible to change the default location of the userdata folder using the advancedsettings.xml file?


I added an advancedsettings.xml file to /usr/share/kodi/userdata with the following commands:


<advancedsetttings>
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>/home/.kodi/userdata</from>
<to>/media/masterosok/ec70e603-8214-4ba1-9bb4-12a07cfa3739/.kodi/userdata</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</avancedsettings>

Does anyone think this will work?

a simple symlink of ~/.kodi should work fine.