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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 20:04:47 +0000
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Subject: Re: ln command in Cygwin (hard links)
From: John Gilmartin <johnggilmartin AT googlemail DOT com>
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Solved. :-)

Apologies Larry, I will know to look up the reporting guidelines for next t=
ime.

Eric, thanks, you've hit the nail on the head. I didn't realise this
could be due to a file system type limitation, but I know now. :-)

Always learning!

Thanks.

John

On 3 March 2010 18:59, Eric Blake <eblake AT redhat DOT com> wrote:
> 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' =3D> `hardlink1': Operation not permi=
tted
>
> $ df -T .
>
> I bet you are trying this on FAT, which does not support hard links.
>
> Consider using NTFS instead.
>
> --
> Eric Blake =A0 eblake AT redhat DOT com =A0 =A0+1-801-349-2682
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
>
>

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