TomatoUSB

Has anyone been successful in creating a symbolic link for an external HD? I tried the following commands, but the link is not getting created -

root@unknown:/tmp/mnt# cd /
root@unknown:/# mount -o rw,remount /
root@unknown:/# ln -s /mnt/sda1/MP3 /MP3
ln: /MP3: Read-only file system

Any ideas? Thanks.

"/" is in ROM, therefore it is read-only.

Why are you doing this anyway? If you have automount enabled, and if your HD partition has the label "MP3", then it will be mounted as /mpt/MP3.

If you then want a symlink to it, make it. But you cannot create anything in /

Forgot about that one point! What I'm trying to do is create a direct link from my media player (via SMB). Problem right now is that I can only mount root level so from my Media player I have to go

/mnt -> /mnt/sd1 -> mnt/sd1/MP3.

I just want a link to MP3 and have it go directly to /mnt/sd1/MP3. Same thing with my Movies since it's on the same drive. I would like a direct link to /mnt/sd1/Movies.

Is there an easy way to do this? Thx

Can't you just map the drive as a network drive from within the media player? My drive is accessible via windows explorer as just another drive which I can drag and drop files into.

What you want is the following:

mount -o bind /mnt/sd1/MP3 /MP3

Have fun.

koitsu: mount -o bind /mnt/sd1/MP3 /MP3

That requires /MP3 to exist which you cannot create since / is read-only

Can't you just map the drive as a network drive from within the media player? My drive is accessible via windows explorer as just another drive which I can drag and drop files into

I do map the drive, but I can only map up to the root directory. Then I have to click through the directories until I get to MP3. I just want to map directly to /MP3. I hope this makes sense.

Karog, you're right. The reason for my recommendation is that I use "mount -o bind /cifs1/opt /opt" to accomplish the same task. It didn't occur to me that /opt was a directory that already exists when the system boots.

Sorry for the incorrect advice. I don't see any other way of solving the OP's dilemma.

You are overthinking it.

How do you make a windows share, where you share some directory of your choosing and give it a share name of your choosing? You don't go through any B.S. of creating softlinks or mounts or any cr*p like that, do you? No you don't. You do it all via Window's GUI.

Do it that same way on Tomato. The only part you can't do is select the directory in the GUI. Instead, you have to specify the pathname as a text string.

Just for grins, I just shared out a deeply nested directory on my router's USB disk, and Windows sees it as \\router\logfiles.

Also just shared out an even deeper nested directory containing music. Windows sees it as \\router\mp3 and is playing one of the mp3's right now.