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Creating hard links

 
Ragni Singh
Super Advisor

тАО05-11-2007 08:51 AM

тАО05-11-2007 08:51 AM

Creating hard links

Hello all,

I'm currently in this dir..

/www/ftp and I have a request for the following..

Please create a hardlink /www/ftpod to
/www/ftp.

How would I do this? Thahks and points will be assigned.
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Ragni Singh
Super Advisor

тАО05-11-2007 09:26 AM

тАО05-11-2007 09:26 AM

Re: Creating hard links

Actually, ftp is a directory and I'm trying to create a hard link to the dir..

I get the follwoing..

[root@pwqaap21 www]# ln ftp /www/ftpod
ln: `ftp': hard link not allowed for directory
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Ivan Ferreira
Honored Contributor

тАО05-11-2007 09:27 AM

тАО05-11-2007 09:27 AM

Re: Creating hard links

In Linux, you cannot create hard links to directories. Only soft links and the command will be:

ln -s /www/ftpod /www/ftp
Por que hacerlo dificil si es posible hacerlo facil? - Why do it the hard way, when you can do it the easy way?
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