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Old 09-23-2008
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fpmurphy is absolutely correct...yes you can change the target of a soft link without deleting the old one by forcing ln to do so.

Code:
ln -s /home/Data1 /home/Stores/abc
ln -f -s /home/Data2 /home/Stores/abc