Re: how to hard link directories?

[Anderson Manly <anderson@manlyfamily.net>]

Sorry if this comes off as a dumb question - but why hard links and not 
just a sym link?

 From looking up this question, I understood it to not be a matter of 
technically impossible, but dangerously impractical. Since a directory, 
like a file, have pointers to an inode number, a hard link could be 
created, but that it would have the potential, for some reason, to 
seriously screw up the file system integrity.

Maybe I misunderstood what I read. Here's the link to the article for 
your reading:  http://linuxgazette.net/93/tag/2.html

-Anderson Manly

Nathan Nutter wrote:
> Can't hard link but you can bind mount.
>
> mount -o bind /path/source /path/destination
>
> Can put it in /etc/fstab as well.
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
> <dsavage@peaknet.net> wrote:
>   
>> 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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