Hardlink files not the same
- by SabreWolfy
I created a hardlink of a file as follows:
ln /path/to/source/file1 /path/to/target/file2
Using md5sum, the two files are identical. After a while, the source file has been modified by another program. The target file does not get "updated". The md5sums are now different. The files are on the same partition of course, otherwise I could not create a link.
What I'm trying to do is get a copy of the source file into the target folder (which is versioned), so that I have access to the source file elsewhere.
I tried moving the source file to the target folder with a different name and then creating a symlink to it at the source, but the program expecting the file then (somehow) created a file of the name it wanted in the target folder.
Ideas?
