your drive is still seen by kernel even when sleeps.
Not sure what you want to do by changing hdd path.
Your previous post is not understandable for me as well. Sorry
However I only have an external HDD installed and mounted as /universe.
So at first I copied the picon directory to /universe and deleted it from /media/usb.
The picons did not show up.
Then made a symlink to /media/usb/
The picons worked OK once again.
So what is mounted as media/usb? You've deleted picons from media usb (they are not there any more) and created 'symlink' to media/usb but picons are not there any more? And it works... Am I right?
Problem is when I switched off the HDD and restarted it, the HDD path changed to autofs/sdb1/
So the symlink that I made was not recognized and I could no longer see the picons.
You can change the path but I do not know what devices you have mounted on your box.
One is utilised by HDD and the other by another device.
Just make 2nd partition on your drive and mount both partition. However you need to keep your drive online all the time, I can't see any reason for doing it.
You may think about USB hub...