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Re: ln command in Cygwin (hard links)


Solved. :-)

Apologies Larry, I will know to look up the reporting guidelines for next time.

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@redhat.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' => `hardlink1': Operation not permitted
>
> $ df -T .
>
> I bet you are trying this on FAT, which does not support hard links.
>
> Consider using NTFS instead.
>
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