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Re: broken 'ln' behavior


On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Jeremey Fischer wrote:
>Put simply, I cant make a hard link between directories.

Are you doing this on vfat or ntfs? Vfat doesn't allow hard links (it's
physically possible but considered an error). But the error I got on Linux was:

[root@neofelis floppy]# mkdir aoeu
[root@neofelis floppy]# ln aoeu snth
ln: aoeu: hard link not allowed for directory
[root@neofelis floppy]#

phma

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