ls -la /home/john/Data
ls -la /home/john
su
password: ********
cd /mnt
md /mnt/mandriva
exit
su -
password: ********
cd ~
kwrite /etc/fstab
exit
su
password: ********
mount /mnt/mandriva
ls -l /mnt/mandriva
cd ~
ln -s /mnt/mandriva/home/John/Data /home/John/Data
johng wrote:THEY ARE NOT
Ken-Bergen wrote:Sorry but I don't see the problem /home/john/Data and /sdb3/Data are the same thing.
doktor5000 wrote:Huh? Actually you do a symlink, to use the object which it's pointing at, under another name.
I.e. there is no differentiation between the name and the target for the symlink, how could there be?
johng wrote:Although it might appear to not matter, the two OS function differently. Both 'Data' directories have the same files, but that's not the point. On the /home/john partition there are different directories either side of the Data directory compared with the corresponding Data directory on /sdb3. Most applications first look at Documents, which in my case is named Data. Sometimes I need to access another directory on /home/john, which I can do with two clicks on Mandriva, but on Mageia I have to go up the sdb3 directory tree to root and then down the Mandriva tree.
johng wrote:I think JoesCat has summed it up when he attributed the effect to KDE 4.6.5, since the phenomenon is apparent only with "KDE" applications. It's not related to partition mounting (all relevant partitions are mounted on boot similarly on each OS). I have not tried absolute v. relative symlinks (cos I don't know how they are determined). In the meantime I'll set my symlink Data path to /home/john, which will suffice. Sometimes it is sufficient to know a "problem" does not have a simple cure.
Hi All, thank you for your contributions.
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