Ubuntu 22.10 - Symlink to External Drive Not Resolved After Reboot
I'm trying to implement I'm getting frustrated with I'm working on a personal project and I'm trying to create a symlink to a directory on an external USB drive that's formatted with NTFS. After creating the symlink, it works perfectly until I reboot the system, after which the symlink becomes broken. The symlink is located in my home directory and points to `/media/usb_drive/data`. I’ve checked that the drive is mounted correctly after rebooting, yet the symlink doesn't resolve. I'm using Ubuntu 22.10 with the default GNOME desktop environment. Here’s how I created the symlink: ```bash ln -s /media/usb_drive/data ~/data_link ``` After a reboot, when I run `ls -l ~/data_link`, it shows: ``` ls: want to access '/home/user/data_link': No such file or directory ``` I've confirmed that the USB drive is mounted at the same location by checking `df -h`. I also added the following line to my `/etc/fstab` to ensure that the drive mounts automatically: ``` UUID=<your-uuid> /media/usb_drive ntfs defaults 0 0 ``` This works fine, but the symlink scenario continues. I'm not using any automounting service like `udisks` or `autofs`. Should I be using a different method for creating the symlink, or is there a way to ensure that the symlink is valid at boot time? Any insights or best practices for handling this kind of scenario in Ubuntu would be greatly appreciated. Hoping someone can shed some light on this. What am I doing wrong? I've been using Bash for about a year now. How would you solve this?