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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers questions with links Post 28889 by yls177 on Wednesday 25th of September 2002 11:58:42 PM
Old 09-26-2002
questions with links

hard links
1) why isnt it possible to link across file system boundaries

2) when we removed one link , how will the other link be affected?


symbolic links
1) why is it possible to create symbolic links but not hard links across file system boundaries?

thanks
yls177
 

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BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1) 					   User Commands					   BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1)

NAME
build-jar-repository - create a symbolic link to a JAR SYNOPSIS
build-jar-repository [OPTION]... DIRECTORY... JAR DESCRIPTION
Build a JAR repository in the named directory by copying files or creating symbolic links OPTIONS
If no option is specified the default action will be to create symbolic links -c, --copy copy files -h, --hard create hard links -p, --preserve-naming try to preserve the names of the original JAR files (in case of a nested hit the slashes in the path will still be replaced by underscores) using this option makes any future automated repository rebuild impossible, and implies -c unless specified otherwise -s, --soft, --symbolic create symbolic links (default) --help display help text EXAMPLES
build-jar-repository . jndi will create a symbolic link to the JNDI JAR in the current working directory build-jar-repository -h /tmp oro will create a hard link to the ORO JAR in /tmp AUTHOR
Written by Nicholas Mailhot and David Walluck REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs using JPackage Bugzilla (http://www.jpackage.org/bugzilla/) build-jar-repository (jpackage-utils) 1.7.0 March 2006 BUILD-JAR-REPOSITORY(1)
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