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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon selkhateeb

Any tips for linking across volumes?

Open jmandala opened this issue 10 years ago • 5 comments

I get this error

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

jmandala avatar Jul 11 '14 12:07 jmandala

same here,how to solve this problem?

guoyida avatar Aug 27 '14 21:08 guoyida

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.

dragonfax avatar Aug 27 '14 21:08 dragonfax

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

jamespayne avatar Sep 04 '14 12:09 jamespayne

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 [email protected] wrote:

Should be added to the issues section of README?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/selkhateeb/hardlink/issues/19#issuecomment-54466828.

dragonfax avatar Sep 04 '14 20:09 dragonfax

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...

holms avatar Jan 19 '17 17:01 holms