Hard Link Question

[Matt Graham]

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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