Hard Link Question

[Austin Godber]

Oh good point, thats probably the real error isn't it.

- Austin

On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Matt Graham wrote:

> From: "Tameek Henderson" <tameekhenderson at gmail.com>
> [ trying to make a hard link to a directory ]
>
> In addition to what others have said, you can't make a hard link to
> a directory.  There are good, technical reasons for this, but they
> boil down to "making a hard link to a dir will screw up your
> filesystem."[0]  In fact, hard links are not really useful in most
> circumstances in ordinary systems.  They're useful when you're
> really low on disk space (rescue floppies) or you have a bunch of
> mostly-identical chrooted environments.  Otherwise, just forget
> about it and use symlinks.
>
> [0] I can dig up the full explanation later if anyone's interested.
>
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