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Anyone know of a working tool to create hard links? I'm trying to move the Logic X Contents out of the main drive and for some reason logic does not like symlinks. I tried and app called hardline but it did not work.

Anyone know of a working tool to create hard links in osx 10.9?

-Thanks
 
A hard link is a concept that only works on the same logical filesystem which, by definition, is only on one drive unless you use RAID or something like that. You can't have a "hard link" between your internal drive and external drive.
 
A hard link is a concept that only works on the same logical filesystem which, by definition, is only on one drive unless you use RAID or something like that. You can't have a "hard link" between your internal drive and external drive.

Thats seems crazy, since in unix you can and OSX is based on BSD unix.
 
Thats seems crazy, since in unix you can and OSX is based on BSD unix.

Not hard links when I first read this post hours ago I did a man ln in Terminal and it tells you there a hard link cannot span file systems only symbolic links can do so. One thing you could try is mounting your external as the directory needed then that external would be considered as part of the file system. The drawback there is the drive would need to be mounted anytime you want to use the program.
 
Not an option. My storage drive is 2 raid drives with 6 terras. I'm going to try using symlink and just the loop Dir as per other tutorials. Quite lame if you ask me...
 
You can mount an external disk partition to a directory in the local tree. Would that be a solution?
 
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