Exceeded limit of symlinks on Xubuntu Dapper

[Mike Bird]

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 23:29, Gabriel M Dragffy wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 09:34 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> > Roughly speaking, ln is mv without the rm.
>
> And roughly speaking that's just cp -a ?

No.  cp -a creates a new file with the same content and
a new directory entry pointing to the new file.  ln creates
a new directory entry pointing to the same file as the
orginal directory entry.  ln -s creates a new directory entry
pointing to the original directory entry by name.

However, when the target is on a different filesystem, mv
does a cp -a and rm instead of ln and rm.

--Mike Bird, speaking roughly