Jupyter does not show symlink folder

Question

I have a folder that is a symbolic link to another folder on my hard drive. It is not shown in the folder list on Jupyter notebook. How can I fix this?

(I'm running ubuntu 16.04).

Thanks

Answer 1

Somehow Jupyter Notbook does not want to follow symlinks, I managed to make it work by mounting a folder. Basically from a folder which is your home to notebook

mkdir mounted_folder
sudo mount --bind /absolute/path/to/some/folder mounted_folder

Just make sure that you first mount the folder and then launch the Notebook server. Otherwise it did not want to work for me.