how to create symbolic link (ln) between two partitions

Question

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??

score 19 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 13 '11 at 08:13

19

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

answered Aug 13 '11 at 08:13

user9517

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 13 '11 at 08:15

2

$ ln -s /mnt/storage/sourcefile.txt /var/www/myweb/linkedfile.txt

answered Aug 13 '11 at 08:15

quanta

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 22 '17 at 12:29

-1

type pwd in the terminal in the containing folder and take the full path of your partition then put it in

$ ln -s fullpath/sourcefile.txt fullpath/linkedfile.txt

then move the link to the destination partition

answered Apr 22 '17 at 12:29

Abd rs

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