soft link to add more space to a directory - shouldn't be this difficult

RHEL7 /var/lib/libvirt/images only have around 11 GB total. Not enough space for VMs.

/ has over 900 GB, I've tried the following and can't get this to work:

Code:ln -s /var/lib/libvirt/images /vmsFor some reason, if I check the space of /var/lib/libvirt/images, it still shows 11 GB free and it shows images pointing to images.

I wouldn't think creating a soft link to another directory to add space would be this difficult.