Re: Hard Link Of Folders...

FROM : Markus Hitter
DATE : Tue Apr 26 22:47:27 2005

Am 26.04.2005 um 19:55 schrieb Roy Lovejoy:

> Anyhow, I knew that fun stuff like /etc and /dev are hardlinked,


Nobile:~$ ls -ld /etc /dev
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 21 Apr 10:55 /dev
(No link at all)
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  11  5 Nov  2003 /etc -> private/etc
(This is a soft link)

> But for backup, security, etc reasons, I REALLY need to hard link this
> folder to root.


Probably you want a soft link. What's wrong with a "sudo ln -s
/path/to/your/favourite/hacking/dir /Company" ?

> It would have been nice if XCode would follow aliases/symbolic links,
> but they don't.


Aliases is something not very Unixy, so few, if any, of the development
tools support them.

As even /usr/include is full of soft links, soft links most probably
work. Even across Volumes.

A hard link is a second name for a file, possibly in another directory,
but always on the same volume[1]. It's indistinguishable which of both
was the original. Try something like:

    touch file1
    ln file1 file2
    ls -l file?


> Can anyone offer any help??


Hope that did help.


Markus


[1] The back of my brain says there is a little imperfection with the
implementation of hard links on HFS+ ...
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