Linux symlink (soft) question

[Justec]

Is there any reason you could not create a soft symlink across two physical hard drives in linux?

Thanks,

Justin

[Kevin]

There's no reason this should be a problem. A symbolic link is simply a special file which points to a path, so it can refer to any path on any mounted filesystem, even one that doesn't exist. The only filesystems where you cannot create symbolic link files are those that don't support them, such as NTFS or FAT32 partitions.

[Justec]

Thanks Kevin.

Yeah, I didn't think it matter, just never tried it before and google really didn't tell me yes or no.

Just deciding wether to get a 2nd drive of 120 GB or 300 GB :shock:

[bd]

Actually, this is exactly why soft links were introduced. Originally (eons ago) Unix systems only had hard links, which couldn't link across devices.