how to create symbolic link (ln) between two partitions
I have two partitions on my Ubuntu 10.04.3 server.
partition 1: /mnt/storage/ partition 2: /var/www/myweb/
now when i run the following command
$ ln /mnt/storage/sourcefile.txt /var/www/myweb/linkedfile.txt
i got this
ln: creating hard link `/var/www/myweb/linkedfile.txt' => `sourcefile.txt': Invalid cross-device link
any idea of how to make this symbolic link??
You cannot use hard links across file systems like that. You need to use ln -s
to create a symbolic link.
ln -s /mnt/storage/sourcefile.txt /var/www/myweb/linkedfile.txt
$ ln -s /mnt/storage/sourcefile.txt /var/www/myweb/linkedfile.txt