What's wrong with this command?
SuSEbox:/windows # rm /windows/g rm: cannot remove `/windows/g': Is a directory
...yet I could then delete it from within File Manager (Super User Mode).
Roger
Nick Rout wrote:
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
