how to determine where sym-link points to

[guenter]

hi,

my question is about how to determine the filesystem of the current directory
for example:

I have 2 filesystems /opt and /u01

In Directoy /opt is a symlink 'mydir' which points to /u01/home/

now I would like to determine when I'm in /opt/mydir that my current filesystem is /u01

Is there a easy way to find that out. ?

thanks
guenter

guenter
mail: porzer_guenter@hotmail.com

 

[Clairvoyant1332]

Running /bin/pwd should show you the "real" directory you're in. This gets around shell built-in commands or aliases that may give you the directory name in terms of the symbolic links followed.

 

[bsek]

My understanding is that you want to find "mydir" on original file system.

#cd /opt/mydir
#df -k .

Ex:

bash-2.03# cd /opt
bash-2.03# ls -la mydir
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 12 Oct 27 15:35 mydir -> /test1/mydir
bash-2.03# pwd
/opt
bash-2.03# cd /test1/mydir
bash-2.03# df -k .
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t5d0s4 2010110 236510 1713297 13% /test1


In above example "mydir" originally on /test1 file system and linked to /opt/ file system.

 

[guenter]

Thanks for your answers !

guenter



guenter
mail: porzer_guenter@hotmail.com