Re: [ILUG] odd linking

From: Paul Jakma (paul at domain clubi.ie)
Date: Sun 14 May 2000 - 11:00:15 IST

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On Sat, 13 May 2000, David Meagher wrote:

  ello,

  this evening i was trying to link two directories on two different
  harddrives

  i tried
  ll -D /dir1 /mnt/DOS-hdb1/dir2
  ^^

you meant ln right?

  and
  ll -F /dir1 /mnt/DOS-hdb1/dir2
                   ^^^^^^^^

is this a DOS filesystem? (dos fs don't support links).

  it either gave me a
  you can't hard link these two directories
  or
  won't connect directories on different devices

/dir1 is on a different partition to /mnt/DOS-hdb1/dir2.

any one got any ideas?

you can't create hard links between files on different filesystems.

try ln -s instead.

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