ntfs hard links not working
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ntfs-3g (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I can not seem to create hard links on ntfs partitions (either on internal or external hd).
Repeat with:
X@X:/media/sda5 % ls -la A B
ls: cannot access A: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access B: No such file or directory
X@X:/media/sda5 % echo 'file A' > A
X@X:/media/sda5 % cat A
file A
X@X:/media/sda5 % cp -al A B
X@X:/media/sda5 % cat A
file A
X@X:/media/sda5 % cat B
file A
X@X:/media/sda5 % echo 'file B' > B
Expected results:
X@X:/media/sda5 % cat A B
file B
file B
Actual results:
X@X:/media/sda5 % cat A B
file A
file B
Mount status (to prove this is an ntfs partition and to show it's mount options):
X@X:~ % mount | grep /media/sda5
/dev/sda5 on /media/sda5 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,
I'm running Ubuntu 8.10
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
I would be happy already if anyone could just confirm this...
NTFS and NTFS-3G should support hardlinks...