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Re: ln command in Cygwin (hard links)

From: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, johnggilmartin at googlemail dot com
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:59:04 -0700
Subject: Re: ln command in Cygwin (hard links)
References: <b5dde99a1003031043p25aa6415h7798d4499b1975a@mail.gmail.com> <b5dde99a1003031048t2291582at4fa3e70ad1ab0732@mail.gmail.com>

According to John Gilmartin on 3/3/2010 11:48 AM:
> Am I going mad? Why doesn't the following work for me?
> 
> $ ln hardlink1 hardlink2
> ln: creating hard link `hardlink2' => `hardlink1': Operation not permitted

$ df -T .

I bet you are trying this on FAT, which does not support hard links.

Consider using NTFS instead.

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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