Solved. :-) Apologies Larry, I will know to look up the reporting guidelines for next time. Eric, thanks, you've hit the nail on the head. I didn't realise this could be due to a file system type limitation, but I know now. :-) Always learning! Thanks. John On 3 March 2010 18:59, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote: > According to John Gilmartin on 3/3/2010 11:48 AM: >> Am I going mad? Why doesn't the following work for me? >>>> $ ln hardlink1 hardlink2 >> ln: creating hard link `hardlink2' => `hardlink1': Operation not permitted >> $ df -T . >> I bet you are trying this on FAT, which does not support hard links. >> Consider using NTFS instead. >> -- > Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org >> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple