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need help with ln command.
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| JustSomeGuy 2004-10-27, 8:46 pm |
| I have a second partition and would like to have a directory in my home
directory that points to that partition...
I can't seem to figure out what the syntax is for the ln command.
ln FreeDrive /Volumes/FreeDrive/
Where FreeDrive is the directory in my home dir
and /Volumes/FreeDrive/ is the root directory on the free drive..
TIA.
B.
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| Barry Margolin 2004-10-27, 8:46 pm |
| In article <xoXfd.41887$nl.20289@pd7tw3no>,
"JustSomeGuy" <nope@nottelling.com> wrote:
> I have a second partition and would like to have a directory in my home
> directory that points to that partition...
> I can't seem to figure out what the syntax is for the ln command.
>
> ln FreeDrive /Volumes/FreeDrive/
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> Where FreeDrive is the directory in my home dir
> and /Volumes/FreeDrive/ is the root directory on the free drive..
Without the -s option, ln creates hard links, which cannot cross
filesystem boundaries. To go between filesystems you need to use a
symbolic link:
ln -s /Volumes/FreeDrive $HOME
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
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| Patrick Beckhelm 2004-11-04, 5:50 pm |
| "JustSomeGuy" <nope@nottelling.com> wrote in message news:<xoXfd.41887$nl.20289@pd7tw3no>...
> I have a second partition and would like to have a directory in my home
> directory that points to that partition...
> I can't seem to figure out what the syntax is for the ln command.
>
> ln FreeDrive /Volumes/FreeDrive/
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> Where FreeDrive is the directory in my home dir
> and /Volumes/FreeDrive/ is the root directory on the free drive..
>
> TIA.
> B.
On another, more general note, you'll be more able to figure this
stuff out if you make liberal use of the 'man' command:
From 'man ln':
A hard link is a pointer to a file and is
indistinguishable from the original directory entry. Any
changes to a file are effective independent of the name used
to reference the file. Hard links may not span file systems
and may not refer to directories.
....just a tip 
Patrick
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