On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:09:39 +0200, Peter Hunkeler ([email protected]) wrote
about "AW: Re: Question regarding system symbols" (in
<[email protected]>):

[snip]
> For  path /abc/xyzA1 this would be the commands
> 
> cd /abc
> ln -s /abc/xyza1 xyzA1

As a style nitpick, I would recommend relative paths in symlinks, e.g.

  cd /abc
  ln -s ./xyza1 xyzA1

The reason for this is, if the filesystem needs to be moved to another
mount point than /abc, the symlink will automatically resolve to the
linked directory even at the new mount point.

HTH
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Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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