I'm trying to create the following symlink ln -sv $LFS/tools / but I keep getting this error message:

ln: failed to create symbolic link '/tools': File exists

I'm having some trouble understanding this error message. Is it telling me that $LFS/tools exists? But that, I think, is to be expected. Is it telling me that there is another tools folder in /? I checked and there's none. Fairly new to Linux and I'm sure that this is stupid question, but I have been trying to solve this for some days and no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

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man / info pages are your friend

try man ln and you'll notice the proper syntax

ln -sv $LFS/tools/ <link_name>

will create a symbolic link in the cwd current working directory to the path provided. The syntax is reverse from most CLI formats i.e. scp <from> <to> format

Naming the link / is not allowed and I don't think that's what you intended

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