Just wanted to add an update and mark this one solved. I was able to add the Symlinks from LL2.2 and Mint to the common "Data" partition, and those work fine.
Windows 7 does have symlinks as well - from command line with mklink, or there are some GUIs (https://code.google.com/p/symlinker/ is one and there are at least a couple others). The mklink command is very similar to the Linux version. I ran into some problems though, as Windows did not want to let me delete the folders I was linking from (which is necessary to establish the link). I am sure there are ways around this, but I decided it would be simpler and more direct to add the folders from the partition (Music, Documents, etc.) to the Windows Libraries, and then set those Folders as the Default locations for Documents, Music, etc. which was pretty simple and works quite well.
If it would be helpful to anyone I will try and put together a tutorial based upon my experience. The info is here in the forum and in the Help Manual, etc. but a little scattered if you are not sure what you are looking for.
EDIT: I just saw that gold_finger has an awesome Tutorial on this. I have to check in there 1st in the future and save myself some trouble!
Thanks again!
Chris
Windows 7 does have symlinks as well - from command line with mklink, or there are some GUIs (https://code.google.com/p/symlinker/ is one and there are at least a couple others). The mklink command is very similar to the Linux version. I ran into some problems though, as Windows did not want to let me delete the folders I was linking from (which is necessary to establish the link). I am sure there are ways around this, but I decided it would be simpler and more direct to add the folders from the partition (Music, Documents, etc.) to the Windows Libraries, and then set those Folders as the Default locations for Documents, Music, etc. which was pretty simple and works quite well.
If it would be helpful to anyone I will try and put together a tutorial based upon my experience. The info is here in the forum and in the Help Manual, etc. but a little scattered if you are not sure what you are looking for.
EDIT: I just saw that gold_finger has an awesome Tutorial on this. I have to check in there 1st in the future and save myself some trouble!
Thanks again!
Chris