On Sun, March 20, 2005 8:42 pm, Roger Searle said: > I have some partitions newly mounted in /windows - /windows/G and > /windows/H - folders I created myself. I am browsing the partitions > mounted there as I would expect to be able to. > > 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?
only if you want to. I wouldn't bother, its up to you. > How do I delete these > links given I have not created them correctly rm /windows/g >- 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)? ln -sf /windows/G /windows/g > How do I assign the correct > permissions once they have been created? you don't need to, its the ownerships and permissions of the real folder that matter. > The man page for chmod says > symbolic link permissions is not changed by chmod. > > Roger > >
