Is it okay to symlink 'Desktop' to a separate DATA partition?

[m654321]

Now one thing to remember with a set up like this, make sure you backup your extra storage as eventually it will fail.

Thanks for your reply, supergamer.
I'm certainly with you on that one - always have two backups of my personal data drive (sometimes 3), and a weekly cloned back up of my OS drive (using 'dd' command), which preserves all the symlinks, etc. I had a bad experience back in 2002, where I lost 3 years of family photos when my Windows OS Toshiba laptop at the time crashed & was unable to retrieve the files - I learnt my lesson ! 

Heard a really sobering story on the radio the other day, where a local radio station's computer crashed and they lost half of all their music and commercials - it took them 6 months to recover most of it!  For the little bit of time it takes to backup, it's more than worth it ...

Thanks for your other details about your system.  One thing I notice is there doesn't seem to be just one right way with Linux - lots of folk have different ways of doing things.

However, I'm still curious to know what reason goldfinger has for not symlinking  /home/username/Desktop to the separate data drive in his tutorial - I'll get an answer to that eventually (hopefully) ....