> There seems to be a problem with making a hard link to a directory, the man > page says that it should be possible, but it's not.
That depends upon the underlying filesystem. For example, on HP-UX on a HFS filesystem you can but on a vxfs filesystem you can't. Most modern systems are vxfs. > When I try with "ln -d /old /new" I get:- > "ln: creating hard link `/new' to `/old': Operation not permitted" > This is as root, and regardless of where in the filesytem the target and > link are. If the underlying operating system filesystem permits then the ln -d command will do it. But if not, as in your case with the error message, "Operation not permitted" then it can't, even as root. ln is an application program and can't do more than the kernel lets it do. Note that even if you create two directories linked together you might find it difficult to remove them later. For example, HP-UX provides two commands for doing what you want (which are generally considered dangerous) called /sbin/link and /sbin/unlink. The GNU ln -d does the equivalent of the hpux /sbin/link but I don't know of any equivalent to the /sbin/unlink and you would be left with no way to remove those directories. You would probably find more expertise on this topic on one of the kernel groups. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
