nixCraft

Hi,

I was recently reading about hardlinks and was told that hardlinks is not supported across directories i.e /home and /tmp etc.


I tried creating a hardlink between them and was able to create and access it

sharadg@tripwire:/tmp$ ln b /home/sharadg/a
sharadg@tripwire:/tmp$ ls -i b /home/sharadg/a
3424472 b 3424472 /home/sharadg/a


Can you explain this ?

Hello,

Welcome to forum!

Is /tmp and /home mounted on same partition? if so you should able to create a hard link. Rule is - Understanding UNIX / Linux symbolic (soft) and hard links :

Run mount command to verify
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Quote:
You cannnot cross or create a hard link between two partitions

• Hard links cannot links directories
• Cannot cross file system boundaries

die linux die, i cannot hardlink directories? 0_o (
HMUG: man lndir (1)
man lndir
man symlink
the info is also right from monk, you can also alias it right? alias blah=bleh then. because i knew the stated fact. but the only solution which i did choose to svn nightly upgrade was park the svn to some other partition and then redirect it. YES monk is right. but to overcome this? use alias. and then link via alias.
common its "teh leenuks" everything is possible.