Luca Ferrari wrote: > from the manual page of ln I saw that the -F option should grant to root the > capability to create hard link between directories. I believe this is a good > feature if the directories are on the same partition, but each time I tried > to do it iI was unable: Operation not permitted. > Can anybody explain me why? Most modern Unices, including Linux, disallow the creation of hard links to directories, even for root. -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@xxxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html