Directory Structure Question

[kurtbarker]

Hey guyz,

I'm browsing my VPS File Manager, and i've found 2 folders which seem to be idential:

/ chroot/ home
/ home

This is one of the biggest directories on the forum because it contains the zip file of my cpanel backup, and my public_html folder... Do I need both of those folders on the server? and are they in fact exact copies of each other?

[Spathiphyllum]

Is one of them just a symlink?

The "file" properties on the symlink would be like:

lrwxrwxrwx 1  root root 12 Jul 24  2006 home -> /chroot/home

The file properties on the real file (or directory) would be like:

-rwxr-xr-x 1  root root 8 Jul 23 19:17 home

If it's just a symlink and a real directory, don't do anything. They aren't copies at all. One is just an OS pointer to the real thing. If you accidentally delete the real directory, it would be a catastrophic failure since you'd have deleted your "home". If you just delete the symlink, no problem except for any other programs or links that referred to the symlink. The symlink could easily be recreated. The real home? Not.

[kurtbarker]

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[Spathiphyllum]

URGENT: Remove your images!

[Spathiphyllum]

OK, now that that is out of the way - no, I cannot tell by the way you have presented the data. Those directories show contents but do not tell me much about the properties of the containing directories.

You need to go to root and check the properties of the directories/links and not browse down to the contents themselves.

Start at root which is "/". Read the contents of "/" and check the list for:
/home
/home/chroot

Dollars to donuts that one of them is a symlink to the real directory. By browsing to "/" and reading its contents, it looks like you'll be able to view the properties for both paths through Virtuozzo.

[Spathiphyllum]

Good. Sorry to alarm you but I didn't want your IP addy and account name to get displayed for prying eyes.