blog: mind that hard link!

[nikos]

here's the comment area for today's blog post found at
www.zabkat.com/blog/preserve-hard-links.htm

[EMathews3]

Thank you sir for this reminder! Was able to change the config on the editor to save files the modern way instead of the floppy-disk way, and now my hardlinks persist regardless of which editor gets used.

[nikos]

and I thought my website was arcane
but as always it is the content that counts, not the cover

[pj]

I don't see any use of hard links in modern equipment.

Saving less that a GB space on the HDD is a waste of time, and as not all programs support this, prone to cause problems. Get a 5 TB external HDD of $98 at Sam's Club. Better yet, get two.

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PJ in (it's too freakin' cold) Myrtle Beach (for a day)

[johngalt]

and I thought my website was arcane
but as always it is the content that counts, not the cover

Well, it is ...

j/s

I don't see any use of hard links in modern equipment.

Saving less that a GB space on the HDD is a waste of time, and as not all programs support this, prone to cause problems. Get a 5 TB external HDD of $98 at Sam's Club. Better yet, get two.

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PJ in (it's too freakin' cold) Myrtle Beach (for a day)

I do. Both hardlinks and symlinks, in fact.

And that is in spite of my system having 6 TB of internal storage and another 3 TB in external drives.

Sometimes it's just easier to do hardlinks than have the same file in multiple locations - particularly files that get edited often.