Ask Ubuntu Asked by Erik Steiner on November 11, 2021
I basically stumbled upon a problem I need help with.
I mounted a HDD. In my /home folder I created several symlinks that point to folders on that HDD. Unfortunately I am unable to create the symlink for the Videos folder, however all other folders worked fine.
This is what I did
UUID=LONG-NUMBER /mnt/md0_crypt ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,nofail,exec,auto,nouser,async,relatime 0 0
rm -r -f /home/me/Musik
rm -r -f /home/me/Videos
ln -s /mnt/md0_crypt/me/Musik /home/me/Musik
ls -s /mnt/md0_crypt/me/Videos /home/me/Videos
When I try to create the Videos symlink it fails
ls: Access to '/home/me/Videos' not possible: File or directory not found
/mnt/md0_crypt/me/ videos:
0 in total
I used chmod 700, because I want to be the only user that has access to the mounted HDD. I don’t know if I forgot something, mount related..
Interestingly I get this:
>>>ls -l /mnt/md0_crypt/me
total 52
drwx------ 13 me me 20480 25. Okt 2019 Musik
drwxr-xr-x 2 me me 4096 21. Jul 20:12 Videos
Just a typo, look at step 6 in your question:
/home/me/Videos
with rm -r -f /home/me/Videos
ls
instead of ln
in ls -s /mnt/md0_crypt/me/Videos /home/me/Videos
, but you cannot ls
this folder, you just removed it.The error message says ls: Access to '/home/me/Videos' not possible
, it's not complaining that ln
fails, ls
is failing.
Answered by mook765 on November 11, 2021
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