linking folders

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/11/21 David McGlone <d.mcglone at att.net>:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to achieve something that I don't think ln will help me achieve.
>
> I have a separate partition that I save all my files on and on this partition
> I have folders for music, movies, etc, etc.
>
> What I would like to do is, have folders in home that I can use as if they
> were in my /home.
>
> I set up symlinks to show the contents of the other drive in folders in /home,
> but if I write to them, the folders on the extra partition do not update.
>
> I'm wondering if it's possible to achieve this on a folder by folder basis,
> instead of having to mount the whole partition on my /home and without having
> to make the folders on the separate partition network folders and mounting
> them with samba.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> David M.
>

Symlink folders is no problem, i have a similar setup as you with
another drive with my data on. Why it wont work for yo i don't know.
Maka sure you have permission to the folders, check how and that the
drive is mounted.

/ Jonas