Any tips for linking across volumes?

[jmandala]

I get this error

╰─$ hardlink /Volumes/Nimbus/Box\ Sync Box\ Sync 1 ↵
hardlink: Cross-device link

[guoyida]

same here,how to solve this problem?

[dragonfax]

Hardlinks don't work across volumes. This is a classic unix and file system design issue. Its because hardlinks are file system feature, not an OS feature.

You can create a symlink across volumes. (ln -s) and OSX has various other forms of links (aliases) that you can create across volumes.

[jamespayne]

Should be added to the issues section of README? Creating pull request.

[dragonfax]

Well its an issue with hardlinks in general, on every OS.

On the otherhand, the limitation listed in the README (links under the same
directory root) is a weird osx specific issue.

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[holms]

Crap... simple Alias won't work also. For example logic studio will download files again.. there was some kind of GUI utility for OSX to solve this, and as I remember it was hardlinking also...