I am trying to move a data directory to another hard drive (on esata) and ran into a problem I’ve never run into before - I’m not sure it has anything to do with esata or not… I moved (linked) the software “run” directory on the esata drive into my data directory, but when I tried to reference higher directories in the tree with …/ - it goes higher in the esata’s tree rather than higher in the main directories’ tree. These software suites sometimes use …/…/ referencing to navigate a tree. Maybe that’s bad practice? Notice below that entering the link (at least in csh) changes the directory tree. I don’t think this is true of linked files. So if I try to run the software from the “test” directory below, it fails - for instance, I can’t source my EMS.cshrc file - the “cd …” command remembers where I am (embedded in a linked dir), but the “source” command does not.
/home/patti/00_GCMs/EMS_WRF/wrfems
patti@OS121-> ls -l
total 60
drwxr-xr-x 2 patti users 4096 Aug 15 21:45 bin
drwxr-xr-x 8 patti users 4096 Jun 29 11:34 conf
drwxr-xr-x 6 patti users 4096 Jun 29 11:34 data
drwxr-xr-x 6 patti users 4096 Jul 8 11:46 docs
drwxr-xr-x 4 patti users 4096 Apr 30 14:02 domwiz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 patti users 10043 Jun 24 19:10 EMS.cshrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 patti users 4096 Jul 4 16:15 logs
drwxr-xr-x 3 patti users 4096 Jun 24 15:41 releases
drwxr-xr-x 3 patti users 4096 Sep 29 10:14 runs
-rw-r--r-- 1 patti users 1845 Aug 28 21:04 runs.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 patti users 970 Aug 28 21:04 runs.txt~
drwxr-xr-x 8 patti users 4096 May 24 13:52 strc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 patti users 55 Sep 29 10:22 test -> /media/94d1b7ca-8aaf-4254-ba4c-f8383790c62f/MODELS/test
drwxr-xr-x 15 patti users 4096 Jun 29 11:18 util
patti@OS121-> cd test
/media/94d1b7ca-8aaf-4254-ba4c-f8383790c62f/MODELS/test
patti@OS121-> pwd
/media/94d1b7ca-8aaf-4254-ba4c-f8383790c62f/MODELS/test
patti@OS121-> patti@OS121-> cd ..
/home/patti/00_GCMs/EMS_WRF/wrfems
patti@OS121-> cd test
/media/94d1b7ca-8aaf-4254-ba4c-f8383790c62f/MODELS/test
patti@OS121-> source ../EMS.cshrc
../EMS.cshrc: No such file or directory.
patti@OS121->