Re: Creating hardlinks for directories.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Leitner <shadow333@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 12:13:51PM +0100
To For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Creating hardlinks for directories.


> On 1/15/06, Vikram Goyal <vikigoyal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wanted to create hardlinks for directories on the same file system.
> > I know it's not allowed. But the man page for ln says one may. Now I
> > want to know how may one switch it on.
> >
> > Also what could be the pitfalls.
> >
> mount --bind /source /target
> 
> works well for me)
> 

Thanks! but it mounts a section of the dir hierarchy on another dir and
will get dismounted on shutdown. Also only root may do it.

I wanted to make permanent links which may or may not be subjected to
frequent deletions etc. and which I as a normal user could execute i.e.
from some scripts.

Regards!
-- 
vikram...
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