So why consider a hard link if a symbolic link works fine for the purpose? -Carl
On Dec 17, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > That is a symbolic link, not a hard link > >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 35 May 25 2013 carl -> >> /Volumes/NewDisk/Users/carl > > Both the "l" at the front, and the "->" in the middle, indicate this is a > symbolic link. > > "ln -s" is the command to make those. > > For what it's worth, I also have my home dir on the second partition, > separate from the operating system partition. (I moved all of /Users by a > symbolic link). > > On 2013/12/17, at 9:21 AM, Carl Hoefs wrote: > >> >> On Dec 16, 2013, at 2:29 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> unless there has been a major (and very surprising) change, hard links by >>> nature cannot refer to other volumes >> >> Hmm, I set up my account on an external drive without any problems, using ln: >> >> $ ls -l /Users >> total 8 >> drwxrwxrwt 9 root wheel 306 Sep 29 20:21 Shared >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 35 May 25 2013 carl -> >> /Volumes/NewDisk/Users/carl >> >> -Carl >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > --- > Entertaining minecraft videos > http://YouTube.com/keybounce > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
