On Thursday, March 26, 2020 1:39:13 PM EDT Bob Goodwin wrote: > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Mar 26 12:58 home -> ../dm-1 This indicates that the file "home" is a synbolic reference to the file (or directory) "../dm-1". [snip] > [root@Workstation-1 fedora_localhost-live]# ls -al home -> ../dm-1 > ls: cannot access '-': No such file or directory That command just redirected ls's stdout to the /dm-1 file or directory. The file you want is ../dm-1 -- not "home -> ../dm-1". The shell parses that as 'home' and '-' and then "sees" ">" as a redirect stdout. -- Garry T. Williams _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx