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When a newer version of the library is installed (libxyz.so.1.5 for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.


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