[ILUG] odd linking

[Paul Jakma]

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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