Hey all, I have a question about mounting. So my setup is this: I have a 250G SSD drive partitioned for Windows 7 and Ubuntu 16.04 and a 1TB HDD drive called "Data" with NTFS for data shared between both OS. The Data drive is mounted on a folder ~/.shared_data.

For a long time, I'd just symlink the relevant folders (doc, pics, vids etc) to my home directory so that I can get access to it from my file browser. The problem with this (which after a bit of research I found was quite pervasive) is that if I select something in the file browser in the symlinked folder and hit the delete key, I get a warning message saying it can't be moved to trash and will delete it immediately. Now, I haven't come across any solution to this so if anyone has a workaround please let me know.

I found out about mount --bind and when I did this to the concerned folders, I was able to delete stuff from the file browser and it would go to the trash bin. From what I understood, if I mount --bind the folders from an already mounted ~/.shared_data, there would be data duplication (I might be completely wrong here). So if I ran clonezilla after I mount --bind, would it end up backing up the huge Data drive as well? Because this would be bad since my external harddisk is only 500G. I also noticed that the permissions for all the folders and files on the mounted drive is chmod 777 and regards of a sudo I can't change them.