[slim] Re: music held on multiple HD
the links for libraries are the same as the ones for directories. a symbolic link is obtained by invoking 'ln -s ...'. A dynamic library could be called 'libxyz.so' for instance, but it would be a symbolic link to libxyz.so.1.4 which is the actual library. When a newer version of the library is installed (libxyz.so.1.5 for instance) the symbolic link gets moved to the newer library. That way the old library is still available and a simple change of link can undo an upgrade. This is much better than actually replacing the old library with the new one and then finding out the new one is buggy. Now for symbolic linking of directories it could go as follows: music folder = /music disk 1 is mounted on /mnt/disk1 disk 2 is mounted on /mnt/disk2 then it's just a question of linking both to a directory in /music ln -s /mnt/disk1 /music/disk1 ln -s /mnt/disk2 /music/disk2 if you then do an 'ls -l' in /music you will see disk1 -> /mnt/disk1 disk2 -> /mnt/disk2 confirming your newly created links Hope this helps, Koen. -- koen koen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2417 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18505 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: music held on multiple HD
did a bit of digging and found this : ln A feature of linking files is available in Linux. It works by "redirecting" a file to the actual file. It's referred to as a symbolic link. Don't confuse this term with the linking of programs, which is when binary programs are connected with libraries that they need to load in order to run. The most simple way that I've ever used ln to create symbolic links is ln -s existing_file link. Evidently there's a hard link and a symbolic link; I've been using a symbolic link all along. You can also use the -f flag to force the command line to overwrite anything that might have the symbolic link's file name already. To remove a symbolic link, simply type rm symbolic_link. It won't remove the file that it's linked to. Patrick, symlinks are for linking libraries in make files for compiling apparently. Neil, I read LN as IN at first, but found it eventually. Thanks guys! -- firestorm firestorm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2244 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18505 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: music held on multiple HD
> I'm not a linux expert, so how would I go about creating the link > between the first and next partitions (FAT32)?Mount the new drive/partition > then, in the directory that SS expects it's music in, make a simlink to that mountpoint. -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18505 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: music held on multiple HD
I'm no expert.. but I think: ln new_drive_mountpoint where_you_want_to_link_to Try creating a small test partition and see if it works.. -- gingerneil gingerneil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1396 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18505 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
