Tim: >> Does anything use hard links? I've cloned a drive using the cp >> command (with appropriate parameter), and not noticed any problems. Mike McCarty: > Since the default is to create a hard link, there are probably > a lot of inadvertent hard links. I can imagine users using them, but then you'll get a warning if you try and link across partitions, and it won't allow them. I can't imagine any sane programmer using them for that reason (because you've know way of knowing if users are going to install everything to one partition or across many). -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
