<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><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/20 Marc Ferguson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcferguson@gmail.com">marcferguson@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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>$ ln /media/DATA/Documents /home/marc/</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>$ ln -s /media/DATA/Documents /home/marc</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"><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>
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