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From: Ron Johnson on 17 Jun 2010 00:00
On 06/16/2010 10:03 PM, ABSDoug wrote:
> --- On Wed, 6/16/10, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson(a)cox.net> wrote:
>
> > Symlink the NTFS iTunes directory to some place under
> > $HOME.
>
> I've never heard this term "Symlink". I'm off to Google, but if you care
> to elaborate, please feel free!

(That's the way for a newbie to engender cooperation.)

>

(Symbolic links are just about the single coolest feature of
Unix-style file systems, and are just about everywhere in /etc,
/usr, /var, ...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link

The name just about says it all: a *symbolic* link from one file to
another. For example:

$ df /mnt/windows
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 36138212 19393344 16744868 54% /mnt/windows

$ ls -1 /mnt/windows/"Documents and Settings"
All Users
anabelle
Compaq_Owner
Default User
Heather
ian
LocalService
NetworkService
Ron
Ron Sr

$ ln -sf /mnt/windows/"Documents and Settings"/Ron/"My Documents" \
Windows_Docs

$ ls -aFl Windows_Docs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ron ron 52 Jun 16 22:47 Windows_Docs -> \
/mnt/windows/Documents and Settings/Ron/My Documents/

$ ls -aFl Windows_Docs/
total 13
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Nov 29 2007 ./
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 May 17 2006 ../
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 74 Nov 29 2007 desktop.ini*
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Nov 29 2007 My Music/
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Nov 29 2007 My Pictures/
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 13 2005 My Videos/

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From: Neal Hogan on 18 Jun 2010 21:20
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson(a)cox.net> wrote:
> On 06/16/2010 10:03 PM, ABSDoug wrote:
>>
>> --- On Wed, 6/16/10, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson(a)cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>  > Symlink the NTFS iTunes directory to some place under
>>  > $HOME.
>>
>> I've never heard this term "Symlink". I'm off to Google, but if you care
>> to elaborate, please feel free!
>
> (That's the way for a newbie to engender cooperation.)
>
>

+1

I suppose I should apologise to the Debian community for my use of the
F-bomb-dropped-"reprimand". . . I do.

(However, I wonder the extent to which debian-users@ members are
willing to be insulted by folks who blatently abuse them.)


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