Subj : hardlink not working with directories on same file system
To   : alt.comp.linux,alt.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux
From : markhobley
Date : Wed Oct 27 2004 12:07 am

I am trying to create a hard link to the directory /mnt/vol1a/www/donk/
into /mnt/vol1a/home/donk:

su root
cd /mnt/vol1a
ln www/donk/ home/donk/www
ln: `www/': hard link not allowed for directory
ln -d www/donk/ home/donk/www
ln: creating hard link `home/donk/www' to `www/donk/': 
Operation not permitted
cd /
ln /mnt/vol1a/www/donk/ /mnt/vol1a/home/donk/www
ln: `/mnt/vol1a/www/donk/': hard link not allowed for directory
ln -d /mnt/vol1a/www/donk/ /mnt/vol1a/home/donk/www
ln: creating hard link `/mnt/vol1a/home/donk/www' to `mnt/vol1a/www/donk/': 
Operation not permitted

Documentation seems to suggest that I can hard link directories on the same 
file system.

What is going on ?

cat /etc/mtab reveals:

/dev/hda6 /mnt/vol1a ext2 rw 0 0

A hard link is required because user donk is chrooted to /mnt/vol1a/donk/

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

Regards,

Mark.

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