I came across a certain article on the Fedora forums. Can I really create a symlink to use space on the root directory, instead of having to resize the root and Home folders? On that same note, I don't know how to create a symlink.
And to answer you question: Yes you can use a symlink to defer some data to another location / partition. But IMHO would me more sense to move the data to a new partition and have this mounted by /etc/fstab in the right location. ;-)
Creating a symbolic link on root directory (/) can be done only by root or by unprivileged user with sudo rights.
As root just run in a terminal a command like the following to create a symlink (symbolic link):
ln -s /path/to/target/dir /symlink-name
as unprivileged user run:
sudo ln -s /path/to/target/dir /symlink-name
Asked: 2013-09-12 06:44:31 -0500
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a symlink is similar to a windows short-cut (although much better of-course). By creating a folder in the root partition, and linking to it from your home folder, you can get easy access, such that you can easily put some files there. However, this is an entirely different thing then resizing a partition.