Any tips for linking across volumes?

selkhateeb / hardlink

a simple command-line utility that implements hardlinks on Mac OsX

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Any tips for linking across volumes? #19

Open jmandala opened 10 years ago

jmandala commented 10 years ago

I get this error

╰─$ hardlink /Volumes/Nimbus/Box\ Sync Box\ Sync 1 ↵ hardlink: Cross-device link

guoyida commented 10 years ago

same here,how to solve this problem?

dragonfax commented 10 years ago

Hardlinks don't work across volumes. This is a classic unix and file system design issue. Its because hardlinks are file system feature, not an OS feature.

You can create a symlink across volumes. (ln -s) and OSX has various other forms of links (aliases) that you can create across volumes.

jamespayne commented 10 years ago

Should be added to the issues section of README? Creating pull request.

dragonfax commented 10 years ago

Well its an issue with hardlinks in general, on every OS.

On the otherhand, the limitation listed in the README (links under the same directory root) is a weird osx specific issue.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:33 AM, James Payne notifications@github.com wrote:

Should be added to the issues section of README?

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holms commented 7 years ago

Crap... simple Alias won't work also. For example logic studio will download files again.. there was some kind of GUI utility for OSX to solve this, and as I remember it was hardlinking also...