If I remember correctly, the only problem with hard linking is that you can not make a hard link that is outside the filesystem that it resides in, whereas a softlink can.
George -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wols Lists Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 1:36 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Things you shouldn't do..... Off-topic - I make a lot of use of this tactic to save disk space - I store all my digital photos in a "secure area", and then link them into my and my wife's home directories so we both see the same file. And because I use hard links, moving the "original" file doesn't break the links. If you do an "ls -al" in a directory, one of the columns is the number of links to the inode - do hard linking and you'll see this climb above 1. Just don't hard-link a directory - I gather it can be done, but an rm is likely to make a mess of your files ... > > James > Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
