linking folders

[Derek Broughton]

David McGlone wrote:

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

>> 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.

Other options for what you want are "mount - -bind" and "mount --move", 
though I confess I haven't figured out when I would want to use them :-)
-- 
derek