linking folders

[David McGlone]

On Friday 21 November 2008 15:30:22 Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Jonas. I was using my ln command wrong. I was symlinking the files 
instead of the actual folders.

-- 
David M.