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| 143730 | 2003-05-13 08:15:00 | I have mounted my 3rd HDD, and its normally /dev/hdd1 Its mounted in the fstab as /mnt/hdd1 (I made hdb1 and the others like that too, easy to remember). Now there's a folder on that drive (FS = FAT32) that I would rather was mounted as /Vidz (Containing.. wait for it.. Music Video's). How would I get a refernce even to that folder if I cannot re-mount it there? Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 143731 | 2003-05-13 09:01:00 | Using a symlink will work. You can create sym-links to stuff on windows drives, but you can actually store the link on it. So just create a link from /mnt/hdd1/Vidz to /Vidz. Either use the filemanager to create it or from at root teminal run: ln -s /mnt/hdd1/Vidz / |
bmason (508) | ||
| 143732 | 2003-05-13 09:36:00 | Cheers, Thankyou so much, its worked a treat!! I take it I can use the: #ln command to make a link with a different name... like /vidz instead? *Feels the need to read - Read the man pages :p* Thanks again Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 143733 | 2003-05-13 10:18:00 | > Cheers, > > Thankyou so much, its worked a treat!! I have a bunch of them in my home directory pointing to various things on my windows partitions, eg downloads, mp3s etc. > I take it I can use the: > #ln > command to make a link with a different name... like > /vidz instead? Yep. Symlinks (ala softlinks) are often called windows shortcuts on steriods because your apps will treat it just like a normal file/directory. If you have a poke around your filesystem, they are used a over the place. esp. to avoid duplicating files in /usr/lib. > *Feels the need to read - Read the man pages :p* There are also hard links (without the -s option) which are links in the filesystem itself making them almost unnoticable. You probably won't want to use them. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 143734 | 2003-05-13 23:01:00 | Brett, I am interested to know how you are so knowledgable about Linux? Have you had formal training or are you self-taught and have just picked it all up yourself through experience? Your knowledge and expertise on Linux is rather formidable! :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 143735 | 2003-05-13 23:06:00 | Yes, I agree! Have you done RHCE? |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 143736 | 2003-05-14 03:23:00 | Nope. Self taught. I've been running (and breaking :-)) it since 1999 (its been my main work OS since 2001). As with windows, you pick up a lot just by using (and breaking) it. |
bmason (508) | ||
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