Hard link a directory

[COKEDUDE]

Is it possible to Hard link a directory? Some people on google say it is possible and some say it is not possible. I haven't seen a working solution though.

[unexistance]

Hi,

Try

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ln -d

Regards,

[Habitual]

Hard links take up twice as many inodes as softlinks.

[COKEDUDE]

Hi,

Try

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ln -d

Regards,

It complains operation not permitted.

Hard links take up twice as many inodes as softlinks.

Ok. Is that a problem?

[unexistance]

Hi,

If you're trying to hardlink ext3 to NTFS, that might not work, as hardlink is supported in ext2, ext3, ext4...

Regards,

[Habitual]

Hi,

Try

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ln -d

Regards,

It complains operation not permitted.

Hard links take up twice as many inodes as softlinks.

Ok. Is that a problem?

Not if you have a 1Tb drive, it's not!

if /path/to/DIR1 is using 1.6G
then a hardlink to /path/to/DIR1 will also take up 1.6G

[COKEDUDE]

Hi,

Try

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ln -d

Regards,

It complains operation not permitted.

Hard links take up twice as many inodes as softlinks.

Ok. Is that a problem?

Not if you have a 1Tb drive, it's not!

if /path/to/DIR1 is using 1.6G
then a hardlink to /path/to/DIR1 will also take up 1.6G

I don't think what you said is correct. I made 6 hard links to a 700 MB file and my disc usage did not change at all. It stayed 16.9 GB of free space the whole time.