thanks guys
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Rusty Ramser <
rusty_ramser@hotmail.com>
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~(-:
>
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