Paul on Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:56:37 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] /etc on a separate partition


sean finney wrote:

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:40:59PM -0500, Paul wrote:


I just had another thought. If /etc/grub.conf was a hardlink instead of a symlink, would that allow the file to exist in both /boot/grub and /etc?


if they're on the same filesystem, yeah. otherwise, you can't have
a hardlink across filesystems.


Oh. One of these years I will begin to understand hardlinks. What is the real purpose of hardlinks?

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