From: "Tameek Henderson" <
tameekhenderson@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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