Symlinks (was Re: Triple boot with MS XP)

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 06/16/2010 10:03 PM, ABSDoug wrote:
> --- On Wed, 6/16/10, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
>  > Symlink the NTFS iTunes directory to some place under
>  > $HOME.
>
> I've never heard this term "Symlink". I'm off to Google, but if you care
> to elaborate, please feel free!

(That's the way for a newbie to engender cooperation.)

>

(Symbolic links are just about the single coolest feature of 
Unix-style file systems, and are just about everywhere in /etc, 
/usr, /var, ...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link

The name just about says it all: a *symbolic* link from one file to 
another.  For example:

$ df /mnt/windows
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             36138212  19393344  16744868  54% /mnt/windows

$ ls -1 /mnt/windows/"Documents and Settings"
All Users
anabelle
Compaq_Owner
Default User
Heather
ian
LocalService
NetworkService
Ron
Ron Sr

$ ln -sf /mnt/windows/"Documents and Settings"/Ron/"My Documents" \
     Windows_Docs

$ ls -aFl Windows_Docs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ron ron 52 Jun 16 22:47 Windows_Docs -> \
     /mnt/windows/Documents and Settings/Ron/My Documents/

$ ls -aFl Windows_Docs/
total 13
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Nov 29  2007 ./
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 May 17  2006 ../
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root   74 Nov 29  2007 desktop.ini*
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Nov 29  2007 My Music/
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Nov 29  2007 My Pictures/
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Dec 13  2005 My Videos/

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