I notice that all the previously created folders in /windows have a "clone folder" with the lowercase letter - /windows/C has /windows/c etc. So I used mkdir to create /windows/G and /windows/H, then tried to create the links but realise I don't really know what I'm doing.
SuSEbox:/windows # dir total 96 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 2005-03-20 19:46 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2005-03-20 19:44 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 2004-08-31 07:52 c -> C dr-xr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 2005-03-20 08:02 C lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 2004-08-31 07:52 d -> D drwxrwxr-x 28 root users 16384 1970-01-01 12:00 D lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 2004-08-31 07:52 e -> E dr-xr-xr-x 1 root users 12288 2005-03-20 08:02 E lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 2004-08-31 07:52 f -> F drwxrwxr-x 6 root users 16384 1970-01-01 12:00 F drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-03-20 19:49 g drwxrwxr-x 13 root users 16384 1970-01-01 12:00 G drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-03-20 19:50 h drwxrwxr-x 5 root users 16384 1970-01-01 12:00 H
Colour coding for the link info is green for the lowercase directory, blue for the others. I partially understand what this is showing me. The folders I created are directories (drwxrwxr-x) rather than links (lrwxr-xr-x). The permissions on the folders I created are wrong - following the example above I need to end up with rwxrwxr-x. I understand this terminology and that this is the same as 775.
The links I created aren't right. For the ones already there (c -> C, d -> D etc) clicking c in Konqueror shows the contents of C. But if I click g I don't see the contents of G, I see G itself. The command I had used was ln -s /windows/G /windows/g
So my questions...
Do I even need these lowercase folder links? How do I delete these links given I have not created them correctly - is simply deleting the link folder the way to do it? How do I create these linked folders correctly (if I need them at all)? How do I assign the correct permissions once they have been created? The man page for chmod says symbolic link permissions is not changed by chmod.
Roger
