Solaris

Hello experts

We had a space problem in our SUN Box and decide to link a directory to avoid full space problem.

my current directory is /home/test/linktest and would like to link this directory to /user01/linktest.

When we try to use ln -s /home/test/linktest /usero1/linktest we got
a hard link on the target directory i.e.
ls -al
lrwxrwxrwx 1 oracle oracle 8 May 15 12:21 linktest -> linktest

Please help us.

That is not a hard link, that is a symbolic link. A hard link would not have the "-> linktest" in it.

For this to work the way you expect the "linktest" directory must not exist in /home/test. Howerver it might be better to automount this directory rather than linking it.

thank you for the reply.

It was a mistake, that should be a symbolic link.
By the way the problem the home/test/linktest is present and I would prefer to see
pwd
home/test/
ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 oracle oracle 8 May 15 12:21 linktest -> /usero1/linktest

Please help me

By the way, how could I do automount.

Thank you

hi shamsul,

ln -h will help

cheers.

-h? Hmm... Never seen that before - the default behaviour of ln is to create a hard link. Anyway, you can't hard link directories - and the OP doesn't want that anyway.

Cheers,
ZB

Did you do this with the spelling mistake as indicated?

Who says you can't hardlink directories? I thought the only limitation was anything hardlinked had to be on the same volume. NTFS had some limitations like this....

ln, for one:

Code:

$ ln ldap foo
ln: `ldap': hard link not allowed for directory

Cheers
ZB