Re: [LUG] Save as box

[Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 22 Sep 2003 8:42 pm, Mike Tidball wrote:
> >OK,I need some very basic help here.
>
> On my KDE desktop there is an icon of a hard disk called E and it has a
> green triangle next to it.This is the partition I want to save to.
> If I hover the mouse over it it tells me amongst other things Device
> /dev/hda5
>
>                                         Mount point     /windows/E
>
> Now are you saying I have to create a shortcut to it in my home directory?
> Do I have to create it from a consol?
> Mike Tidball

Yes, a lot of Linux configuration is done via the console, especially small, 
personalised, things like this.

As an ordinary user:
$ ln -s /windows/E ./data
(there's a space in there after the E, be careful.)
It's much more than a shortcut.

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