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" > [ 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. > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss