On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 08:04:47PM -0800, Steven Yap wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 19:28, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:32:45PM -0800, Steven Yap wrote: > > > /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to hdc. Is your CDROM drive really on hdc? > > > Try using the full path (/dev/hdc). > > > > There's no difference between an absolute and a relative path here. The > > symlinks are relative to the directly they reside in. > > Oh, good to know. Stylistically, I'm rather fond of absolute paths in a > symlink. Not sure why though.... hrmmm.
The difference shows up when you mount the filesystem elsewhere (rescue), rearrange your directory structure, when you share a filesystem, etc. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 4
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