Re: sym link question...
From: Cameron Simpson (cs_at_zip.com.au)
Date: 03/10/05
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:12:39 +1100 To: bedouglas@earthlink.net, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
On 09Mar2005 16:39, bruce <bedouglas@earthlink.net> wrote:
| i have a question regarding symlinks. i have my system partitioned
|
| /dev/hda5 100 /
| /dev/hda1 10000 /home
| /dev/hda2 30000 /usr
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| is it possible to create a symlink that would allow '/' to point to
| /usr/root. i'm inclined to think you can't but i'm not knowledgeable about
| the concept of symlinks within linux....
You can't.
You could perhaps go the other way depending what you wanted to achieve
and why, and how hard you want to work.
A symlink is a normal filesystem object, like a file or a directory etc,
in that such an object must _be_ something. So you can't make a symlink
for / because / must be a directory.
| would you have to copy the dir structure under '/' to the symlink. and
| wouldn't this cause a recursive issue/situation??
A symlink just points somewhere. You'd move the directory contents to that somewhere. Example:
mkdir foo
echo 1 >foo/1
echo 2 >foo/2
makes a directory "foo" with some stuff in it. Supposing you actually
wanted it at "bah" and wanted a symlink at foo (eg to support scripts
that might know the old "foo" name), you'd go:
mv foo bah
ln -s bah foo
That moved foo sideways to bah, and then makes a symlink named "foo" that
points at "bah".
/ is special - it's got to be a directory, being at the top of the
filesystem; there's nowhere to put the symlink; consider that the symlink
above for "foo" is in fact stored in the directory containing "foo" -
there is no directory "containing" "/".
Does this clarify things at all?
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