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Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 4:52 PM
Subject: [newbie] Link to directory
> I am trying to make a link to my windows desktop directory. The command I
tried was
>
> "ln -d /mnt/(desktop directory)/ WinDesktop" but it said "cannot create
hard link: Invalid cross-device link." Also, would it be possible to make
this link from the / directory?
What you need is a symbolic link, so try:
ln -s /mnt/{desktop directory} WinDesktop
The default way of making a link is a "hard-link" which makes a file entry
point to something on the same disk so it must be on the same device.
The symbollic link associates the file entry with some text: the path to
your file. Because there's no i-node reference, it can point to anything on
your file system.
