Re: how to hard link directories?

["Casey Boone" <caseyboone@gmail.com>]

Are you wanting to hardlink the directories themselves or the contents?

The former, which I think would work fine in your case, would be a bind mount.  I am not at a machine to test from (on my crackberry), but mount --bind /path/to/file/location /path/to/mount/to comes to mind as the syntax

Same rules for destination mount point apply to this type of mount as well

Hope this helps

------Original Message------
From: Robert G. (Doc) Savage
Sender: silug-discuss-owner@silug.org
To: silug-discuss@silug.org
ReplyTo: silug-discuss@silug.org
Subject: how to hard link directories?
Sent: Mar 16, 2010 6:16 PM

I'd like to create a hard link between

        /pub/fedora/linux/development/13/
         and
        /pub/fedora/linux/updates/13/

such that the contents of ./updates/13 exactly match those
of ./development/13 without consuming any more disk space.

I've been hammering away at various combinations and permutations of
'ln' without any luck. Is ln the correct utility to use? If so, what's
the syntax I should use?

--Doc


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