Comments on: How to: Linux / UNIX create soft link with ln command

By: Bharath

Bharath — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:54:25 +0000

Really thanks guyz…. I created link successfully.

CASE: Actually user PC “/” is completely filled, so that user is unable to login. But he is able to login as super user. “/” is 100%.

SOLUTION: I find that /usr and /var is occupying more space, so wat i did is I moved content of /usr directory to /work directory (free space) and did ln -s /usr/include /work/name of the link . Thats it all files are physically in /work direcory but logically it is pointing to /usr/include place.

After rebooting user is able to work with his login, gained space in “/”.

Thanks,
Bharath

By: seafangs

seafangs — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:54:03 +0000

Thanks, this was the info I needed

By: chandra sekhar

chandra sekhar — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 06:00:07 +0000

soft link maintains duplicate data in two files.
if you link one file with another,change in one file reflected to another file also.

By: Gopikant

Gopikant — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:22:50 +0000

What is the basic use of a soft link or sym link?

By: nsu123

nsu123 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:16:18 +0000

Hi,
I have a couple symboliclink questions:

1. How can I create a symboliclink between two filesystems?
Do I need to have a mount point to the second filesystem first then create a link to it?

2. If I copy a file with that has a symboliclink to another filesystem, will it lose the link?

Thanks.

By: C Pimento

C Pimento — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:18:33 +0000

Thank you !

By: Manish

Manish — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:58:40 +0000

@Shivani and @ Mansi

1st ask wat is UNIX?
u guys are kidding, right? :)

By: mansi

mansi — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:50:02 +0000

how to make folder in unix…………

By: shivani

shivani — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:48:41 +0000

hiiiiiiiiii how to write the code in file……..

By: indir

indir — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:27:06 +0000

Hi,
Thanks chepas, it’s worked!

By: Ndamu

Ndamu — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:09:49 +0000

Please help me,when i create symbolic links they always come up broken

By: nikesh

nikesh — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:56:33 +0000

Please make sure that the file which you are accessing is having a read access for web server.

If you are accessing a file under the home directory of a user there might not be read access for home directorates.

means /home/user folder will be with 700 (drwx——) permission. So you would need to set 755 permission for /home/user folder if you need to access the file through URL.

By: Devadas

Devadas — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:18:46 +0000

hi all..pls solve this issue…
why my link size immediately goes to zerosize occasionally?

By: links management

links management — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:59:32 +0000

You can use .htaccess rules to create it

By: bbithead

bbithead — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:12:54 +0000

sure you can:
ln -s /existing/directory /sym/link/to/that/dir

By: santosh

santosh — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:11:52 +0000

u cannot create symbolic link to directories.

By: chepas

chepas — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:27:37 +0000

darshan 10.26.09 at 2:47 am
My soft links are not visible through http:
how do I make sure that web server has access to those folder.
Please give the exact set of commands.

that depends on your webserver, for apache:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

By: darshan

darshan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:47:44 +0000

My soft links are not visible through http:
how do I make sure that web server has access to those folder.
Please give the exact set of commands.

Thanks

By: Hi SUNIL(IEET BADDI)

Hi SUNIL(IEET BADDI) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:58:37 +0000

How we can make more the Effective the Hardlink And Softlink?

By: Hi SUNIL

Hi SUNIL — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:54:41 +0000

whats the advantage of soft link over Hard link?