thanks guys :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Rusty Ramser wrote: > Hi, Michael. > > Sounds like you're basically wanting to create some symbolic ("soft") > links from directories in your /home folder structure to the /entertainment > area. > > I would do something like the following: > > 1. First, ensure that /dev/sda4 is mounted, (and that it comes > up mounted with system restarts). Let's assume you have it > mounted at the root as /entertainment, for the rest of the > example commands. > 2. Next, ensure your normal user account has full permissions > to the /entertainment partition. If you mount additional > partitions after the initial installation, you'll likely > find that the top-level folder structure is owned by root, > and that will prevent you (as your normal user account) > from doing much with them. So look at the output from this > terminal command: > $ ls -l / > Does it show that root owns the /entertainment directory, or > that your "michael" account owns it? If root owns it, run > the following command to change ownership to michael so you > can then freely put files there. > $ sudo chown -R michael: /entertainment > The case of that capital "R" parameter is important. > Enter your password when prompted, of course. Re-run the > ls command from above, and you'll now see that you own the > directory. > 3. If you don't already have subdirectories called Music, > Videos, Pictures, etc. in /entertainment, create them now > by running commands like this: > $ cd /entertainment > $ mkdir Music Videos Pictures > 4. If you have existing /home/michael/Music, > /home/Michael/Videos, and /home/michael/Pictures directories > with any files in them, you will want to move over those > existing files to their corresponding /entertainment > directories. Like so: > $ cd ~ > $ mv Music/* /entertainment/Music > $ mv Videos/* /entertainment/Videos > $ mv Pictures/* /entertainment/Pictures > Do this for as many directories (with existing contents in > them) as you have. > 5. Remove the existing home directories by doing something like > the following. (Double check that all contents have actually > been moved before deleting!) > $ cd ~ > $ rm Music Videos Pictures > 6. Finally, create the symbolic links in your home directory to > their counterparts in /entertainment, by commands like this: > $ ln -s /entertainment/Music /home/michael/Music > $ ln -s /entertainment/Videos /home/michael/Videos > $ ln -s /entertainment/Pictures /home/michael/Pictures > 7. Take a look at how caja now works with the "directories" > you have created in your home. > > Naturally, make sure that the syntax of any of the above commands matches > your environment and what you're trying to do. (For example, if the > entertainment partition is mounted somewhere else besides root level, > change commands accordingly, if your normal user account isn't named > "michael", change those commands, etc.) > > Happy linking. > > Cheers. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto: > plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael Havens > Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 20:16 > To: PLUG > Subject: link folders together > > here is the setup of my computer: > > sudo cfdisk > Unusable > 1.05* > sda4 Primary ext4 > 118002.55* > sda3 Primary ext4 > 117000.12* > sda1 Boot Primary ext4 > 8999.93* > Logical Free Space > 0.17* > sda5 NC Logical swap > 5996.20* > > sda1 is / . sda3 is /home . sda4 is a partition I created called > /entertainment . I want to link the folders music, videos, and pictures to > /entertainment so that when I click on the pretty icon in caja it will go > to a folder in entertainment with the same name. How do I do it? > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >