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According to John Gilmartin on 3/3/2010 11:48 AM:
> Am I going mad? Why doesn't the following work for me?
>=20
> $ ln hardlink1 hardlink2
> ln: creating hard link `hardlink2' =3D> `hardlink1': Operation not permit=
ted

$ df -T .

I bet you are trying this on FAT, which does not support hard links.

Consider using NTFS instead.

--=20
Eric Blake   eblake AT redhat DOT com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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