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creating link between two directories on two different linux machines

HI,
I want to create a folder X on machine A which links to folder Y on machine B.
How can i do it in linux ?

Also i have a directory on a linux machine which shows highlighted in green which i guess is a link to some other directory on another machine.
But i am unable to view the details of the directory like where it is linked to n all..
what linux command can help me do that.

Thanks

Tintin

How are your Linux boxes networked?
Do you use NFS mounts, SMB mounts or something else?

Sandy

check the file details with type and #file command to see what kind of directory is that ... generally green is executable file and sky blue is link file...

To accomplish this task i can suggest either NFS or SMB.

TY/SA

Rohit Bajaj

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How do i find out that ?

Sandy

#ls -la <dir>

#file <dir>

TY/SA

Rohit Bajaj

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Following are output of the commands run on my machine :

file DBdumpOutfile
------------------------------------
DBdumpOutfile: directory

ls -la DBdumpOutfile
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total 744268
drwxrwxrwx 2 507 507 4096 Feb 7 06:00 .
drwxrwxr-x 7 ytxdist ytxdist 4096 Jan 9 11:44 ..
-rw-rw-rw- 1 507 507 379346211 Feb 2 03:12 20140202031136dumpfile.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ytxdist ytxdist 13082184 Feb 2 03:12 20140202031136dumpfile.zip
-rw-rw-rw- 1 507 507 357496745 Feb 4 23:50 20140204234827dumpfile.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ytxdist ytxdist 12186081 Feb 4 23:50 20140204234827dumpfile.zip

It doesnt show if this is linked to some other folder.

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Rohit Bajaj

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df -h DBdumpOutfile
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
172.16.1.182:/DBdumpOutfile
55G 5.8G 47G 12% /data/ytxdist/SCHEDULER/DBdumpOutfile

Yes i got it here the information which i needed.

Thanks

Sandy