Richard Blackburn wrote:
....snip....
> Thanks you for your response. To get more precise the likely candidate
> for moving would be the entire doc directory. But I would need to leave
> a symbolic link behind ... right? None of the books I have specifically
> indicate that a link for an entire directory and all its children is
> possible . . . they just talk about links to files. Is such a link
> possible?
Yes
Go to new place you want to put the stuff.
Create new directory new
cd new
cp -r /path/to/old/* #copy recursively the original stuff
ls #check it is there
cd /path/to/old
cd .. # up one level, of course use cd /path
mv old old-2 # shift old aside slightly
ln -s /path/to/new old # make the link
du -s old-2 # check size of original
du -s old # compare to new
if paranoid you can find on each sub-dir and pipe into a file, then
run that program (which I can not remember at present - aaah = diff)
that compares the contents of two files.
Check any apps that work across the link. Occassionally some will not
work.
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