Making directories outside of your $HOME visible in the Grid Portal

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What works is to (1) get a command line, and (2) make a symbolic link, like:

  1. Get a command line
  3. Make a symbolic link to the directory

For example, if we wanted to make a directory called /u/home9/kilroy/data/my_data visible in the Grid Portal, we'd do: 

ln -s /u/home9/kilroy/data/name_of_my_data_directory /path/to/whatever_i_want_to_name_my_link

For a more specific example, say I want to make directory /u/home9/kilroy/data/foo_study visible in my /u/home9/kilroy/myusername/projects/ directory in Grid Portal. I also want it to appear named as foo_study in Grid Portal. I would: 

cd /u/home9/kilroy/myusername/projects
ln -s /u/home9/kilroy/data/foo_study ./foo_study

Then in the Grid portal data managers, you can use "foo_study" just like any other directory name in your home directory.

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