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~(-:
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