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selkhateeb / hardlink

a simple command-line utility that implements hardlinks on Mac OsX
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hardlink: file exists - Can I only hardlink to a file once? #10

Open jeffpoulton opened 11 years ago

jeffpoulton commented 11 years ago

I successfully used hardlink to hardlink a directory. Woot! I then tried to hardlink to the same source from from a different destination directory, but I'm getting the following error:

$> hardlink: file exists

Any idea why I am getting this error? I've tried it from multiple destination directories and with the same effect.

lrecknagel commented 9 years ago

I have the same error message when I try to hardlink two folders:

hln /Users/Documents/hardTEST/ /Users/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com\~apple\~CloudDocs/hardTest/

Any ideas why it wont work :/

dragonfax commented 9 years ago

I'm starting to wonder why hardlinks are even still supported on OSX considering how many wacky restrictions there are on them. They're nothing like unix hardlinks anymore.

BenjaminHCCarr commented 7 years ago

I just had this issue last week.

I realized I wasn't trying to hln the original folder, but rather the target of a prior hln src target.

This had to do with a backup server/system that wet itself on hardlinks so I moved everything into one directory for the backup target and used hln to put things "back" where they "should" be.