Problem creating link to a mounted directory
 

Hi!
My sister will soon be using my laptop. It has a dual-boot between Windows 7 and Arch. There is a shared NTFS partition that I use for my files. I want for her to do the same, and I'm trying to make it easy for her, since she's computer illiterate. I have the Windows side figured out, it's the Linux side that I'm having trouble with. I have my fstab set up so that the shared NTFS partition is mounted under /win. In the /win directory, I have 2 folders, one for me, one for her. I would like to make a link in her home directory that she could click on that would take her to /win/katie. However, when I do
as root, it says that I can't do it. Any ideas?

Thanks

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?ln

from the looks of what you want to do you, you should be using the 3rd form of
but i could be way off base, ive not messed much with ln.

have you tried:
or some such.
anyhow,should clarify things...

Thank you for your suggestiond. Unfortunately, I keep getting the same result:
I looked at the man page, and it didn't mention anything about links across partitions. It did mention the -s flag, so I tried it, and it works! I'm not sure why, but I'm glad that it does.

Thanks!

me: facepalm!
using the -s switch is the most common and probably best way to do it.