How to Create a Symbolic Link to a Mounted Volume

[Markus Schönhaber]

Dom Incollingo:

> I mounted a home directory from another computer via sftp.  The directory is
> mounted as:
> 
>             sftp://dji@linux/home/dji.

I doubt that it's mounted there. That's an URL you can, for example,
type into Nautilus' location bar to access this resource.
Type
mount
to see a list of what is mounted where.

> I tried to make a symbolic link to this directory by running  the command
> 
>           ln -s sftp://dji@linux/home/dji  anotherHome
> 
> But the link that is created (anotherHome) is not usable.  How can I create
> a symbolic link to a a mounted volume?

You can't create usable symlinks pointing to somewhere outside the
filesystem tree.
OTOH: if you use Gnome and did use Nautilus to access this URL, the gvfs
will by default make the root of the remote filesystem accessible trough
a directory below ~/.gvfs. You should be able to create a usable symlink
pointing there.

Out of curiosity: why do you want to do that?

Regards
  mks