How to move Documents, Music, Movies and Pictures (only) to a separate internal drive?

How can I move just the Documents, Music, Movies and Pictures folders to a separate internal hard drive? I am running Mac OS 10.6.8 on a Mac Pro (2,1) with three 500GB Intel ESB2 AHCI internal drives. I do not want to move the entire Home folder, as I wish to keep the Applications forlder on the boot volume. Thanks!

The Applications folder is not part of your Home folder -- it is available to all.
Make space for performance -- Moving the Home folder

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