Alias for a Mount Folder / Partition

Deiota · 10-14-2004, 11:09 AM

Hello!
I'm new at Linux OS and I'm running Fedora Core 2 distribuition.
I've just mounted my FAT32 partition and I wanted to make some kind of alias to my docs folder and partition, so I don't have to write /mnt/data/Folder_name all the time I want to acess to my docs. I wanted to create a alias so when I write docs it goes to /mnt/data/Folder_name.
How do I do that?
Best regards,

Andrea Oliveira

maxut · 10-14-2004, 12:41 PM

i cannot get "alias" thing. do u mean shortcut?
so why dont u crate a shorcut to /mnt/data/Folder_name on your destop?
$ln -s /mnt/data/Folder_name ~/Destop/Folder_name
so u can reach there easyly.

Deiota · 10-14-2004, 02:46 PM

hello!
When I try to do that it says Operation not permited (i'm as root),~

maxut · 10-15-2004, 03:43 AM

it works here as root or as a user. it is FC2 too. i use gnome as desktop manager

Deiota · 10-15-2004, 05:19 AM

Hello!
I just did it.
As root, at ~user's home, I did ln -s /mnt/data/folder folder and I just did it.
I guess the problem was I was doing it as root as ~root's home.

Thank you anyway.

maxut · 10-15-2004, 06:21 AM

yep u r right about "~". it points the home directory of current user.