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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Jim has most of it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Just wanted to mention the initial “ln”
without a “-s” would have failed completely because hard links can
only exist within a filesystem as they reference the same inode. One of the
reasons for symbolic links (the “-s” option) was to get around this
limitation. It is unlikely your first ln command caused any issue. What Jim
writes about the second command is more likely the cause.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, December 21, 2008
8:39 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">ale@ale.org</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] Can LN Erase
Data?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
Fresh install of F10 creates a download, documents and Music folder. So if you
linked some other folder to the existing Documents, the existing contents are
now hidden but not deleted. <br>
So you now have /media/DATA/Documents obscuring your view of the original
/home/marc/Documents.<br>
<br>
But a third read (before coffee) suggests you were trying to link FROM the
/hom/marc TO /media/DATA<br>
<br>
you got the ln command params backwards. It should be ln <source>
<link dest>.<br>
<br>
So unlink the mess you have (man unlink) and ln ~/Documents /media/DATA/
, etc.<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>2008/12/20 Marc Ferguson <<a href="mailto:marcferguson@gmail.com">marcferguson@gmail.com</a>><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi,<br>
<br>
I would like to know if the "ln" command can erase data? I did
a fresh install of Fedora 10 and I wanted to link my "download",
"documents", "music", etc folders in my /home directory to
my second partition. I forgot about symbolic links and I did this first:<br>
<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>$ ln /media/DATA/Documents /home/marc/</span></i><br>
<br>
It gave me a particular message, I forget what it was... it didn't seem
threatening at the time. I saw that it didn't work so I did the symbolic
link and that worked fine.<br>
<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>$ ln -s /media/DATA/Documents /home/marc</span></i><br>
<br>
So; that worked, but when I opened the documents folder all the files in there
were gone. Did I do something wrong?<br clear=all>
<font color="#888888"><span style='color:#888888'><br>
-- <br>
Marc F.<br>
<br>
"..Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to
come.." -Rev1:4<br>
"When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide!" -Marc F.<br>
</span></font><br>
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-- <br>
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James P. Kinney III <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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