Creating hardlinks for directories.

[Vikram Goyal]

-----Original Message-----
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>
Sent: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 09:15:19AM -0600
To For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Creating hardlinks for directories.


> On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 05:45, Vikram Goyal wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I wanted to create hardlinks for directories on the same file system.
> > > > I know it's not allowed. But the man page for ln says one may. Now I
> > > > want to know how may one switch it on.
> > > >
> > > > Also what could be the pitfalls.
> > > >
> > > mount --bind /source /target
> > > 
> > > works well for me)
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks! but it mounts a section of the dir hierarchy on another dir and
> > will get dismounted on shutdown. Also only root may do it.
> > 
> > I wanted to make permanent links which may or may not be subjected to
> > frequent deletions etc. and which I as a normal user could execute i.e.
> > from some scripts.
> 
> Why not use symlinks instead?  They work fine for directories
> as long as you remember which is the real one and which is
> the link (or check with 'ls -l' so you know what to expect
> from deletion.
> 

Yes that's what I was doing but something cropped up which needed this.
At least this is the only solution to that particular problem whether
I'm able to do it or not.

Thanks!
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