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brent timothy saner on 14 Dec 2016 12:42:16 -0800
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Re: [PLUG] Symlink Problem
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- From: brent timothy saner <brent.saner@gmail.com>
- To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] Symlink Problem
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:41:57 -0500
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On 12/14/2016 03:35 PM, Ronald P Guilmet wrote:
> I know symlinks cannot span drives because of inodes, does that apply
> here with a mount?
>
This is false.
from ln(1):
-s, --symbolic
make symbolic links instead of hard links
Symlinks (symbolic links) absolutely can span mounts. They can even
point to nonexisting files/dirs/etc. You are thinking of ln's *default*
link, hardlinks.
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