Re: symlinks
Re: symlinks
- Subject: Re: symlinks
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:30:48 -0500
On Aug 15, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Tommy Bollman wrote: You create a hard link, that aren't allowed to cross over mounted volumes. That is a symlink is a file, that contains a reference to some i-node on some volume, but a hard link, is an I-node, and will be inserted into the i-node table of the file manager, -and you don't want any inconsistencies in such table, which you get if the volume in speak are unmounted, and therefore the operation is prohibited.
The man page for ln tells me that: 1. -s Create a symbolic link. 2. Symbolic links may span file systems and may refer to directories. 3. Hard links may not normally refer to directories and may not span file systems.
I think this means that a symbolic link can refer to a folder on an external disk or a non-startup partition. I will have to extend my experiments to include this. We will see what happens, tomorrow.
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