On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:50:57 -0500 Temlakos temlakos@gmail.com wrote:
- How can you write the linking commands so that they will execute
automatically at startup, rather than your having to "sudo ln -s [source] [destination]" for every directory for every user every time you restart your system? (I'm likely to be shutting down and restarting every day and sometimes twice or three times a day, depending on whether I can solve the "KDE Plasma 5 system hang" problem with this new installation.)
Once they are set they are there until you remove them. They're like directories, they are always there. Restarting and shutting down doesn't affect them.
- Could you give me an example of such a linking system, with names
changed to protect your privacy?
Suppose I have a directory called /mnt/data_drive/source where I keep source code on my data drive.
Then, in my home directory, I just have the link source, that I set up as ln -s /mnt/data_drive/source source Once that is in place, if I am in my home directory I can type cd source and it will take me to /mnt/data_drive/source, and if I am somewhere else I can type cd ~/source and it will do the same thing.