On Sun, March 20, 2005 10:13 pm, Roger Searle said: > What's wrong with this command? > > SuSEbox:/windows # rm /windows/g > rm: cannot remove `/windows/g': Is a directory
ahh yes, small slip there, the command to delete a dir is rmdir not rm > > ...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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
