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426003 2006-02-23 03:13:00 The problem with /home/phil/shared is that you tried to create a symbolic link with the same name. (I suspect that didn't work). You can have one of these, but not both. ls -l /home/phil will show what you got.

The symbolic link is the way to do what Jen suggested. Making a directory doesn't do it. (Of course you could mount the partition there rather than on /mnt/shared ... that would work).

Anyway, to create a directory inside a user's home/user/ tree you should be the user to do it. That way the directory will automatically belong to the user, not root.
Graham L (2)
426004 2006-03-01 07:13:00 Hi Guys,
I'm back. Been messing with my linux install for a couple of days but with no improvement.
Life would be soooo much easier talking to you guys if I could get my internet connection going. I wouldn't need to re-boot to Windows all the time and back again.

I still can not see the top 70 Gig of my Linux HDD. This seems to be one wopping big swap file instead of my dedicated linux data area !
Any idears ?

Cheers,
Phil
ps I can see the 8.4 Gig shared hdd ok
jupiter1 (2578)
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