First, thanks for getting back to me Dave. davej@xxxxxxxxxx (Dave Jones) writes: > intended. It hardlinks all files that are identical to one copy. > This saves a *lot* of diskspace, especially when you have several > kernels installed. Ok so if this is the case, couldn't we run the following instead? hardlink -c /lib/modules/*FC?/build/$f $f IE anything that wouldn't overwrite my kernel tree (which isn't owned by root), in this case matching for FC3. I guess we could be more specific though or we could 'rpm -qf' directories under /lib/modules to only touch these that are owned by kernel packages. Any thoughts? -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer "Le disparu, si l'on vénère sa mémoire, est plus présent et plus puissant que le vivant". -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Citadelle --