[ale] Can LN Erase Data?

[Jim Kinney]

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.
So you now have /media/DATA/Documents obscuring your view of the original
/home/marc/Documents.

But a third read (before coffee) suggests you were trying to link FROM the
/hom/marc TO /media/DATA

you got the ln command params backwards. It should be ln <source> <link
dest>.

So unlink the mess you have (man unlink) and ln ~/Documents /media/DATA/  ,
etc.



2008/12/20 Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> 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:
>
> *$ ln /media/DATA/Documents /home/marc/*
>
> 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.
>
> *$ ln -s /media/DATA/Documents /home/marc*
>
> So; that worked, but when I opened the documents folder all the files in
> there were gone.  Did I do something wrong?
>
> --
> Marc F.
>
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