On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:08 AM, admin lewis <adminlewis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2010/12/9 JB <jb.1234abcd@xxxxxxxxx> >> admin lewis <adminlewis <at> gmail.com> writes: >> >> A hard link is basically a link to the i-node number of the original file. >> >> i-node numbers are not portable across different disks. >> >> Hard links can only be created to files on the same file system. >> >> To create a hard link, the original file and the link file should exist in >> the >> same partition. >> >> LVM is a logical superstructure consisting of different physical >> partitions on same or different disks. > > different phisical partitions ? > why ... the phisical partitions are those: > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 63 409662 204800 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 409663 488392064 243991201 83 Linux > > maybe u mean virtual partitions... ? Hard links can't cross fliesystems because two hard-linked files point to the same inode. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines