Bug 88606
| Summary: | i can't hardlink directory | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Eric Doutreleau <edoutreleau> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-06-08 14:45:47 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Most file systems do not support links to directories as any user. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: I would like to hardlink two directories As stated by the man pages i could do that under the identity of root user with the command ln -d source dest Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.mkdir toto 2.ln -d toto titi 3. Actual Results: ln: creating hard link `titi' to `toto': Operation not permitted Expected Results: the hard link should be created. Additional info: