Create recursive hardlink of entire folder

reno_queen

First of all, I know that you can't create hardlinks of a folder. I was wondering if there was any command (linux) that could automatically (and recursively) create the subsequent folder-tree at the destination and then hardlink all the files from source to destination automatically.

Originally asked by RazorHail on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I'm not sure what you mean by "then hardlink all the files from source to destination automatically". And you explicitly want recursion. If you want the two locations to stay "synced", so e.g. removing or creating a file should be observed in both of them at once, then bind mounting ( this other answer ) is good. Note the solution leaves no trace in the filesystem. If you create a hardlink, it's created in the filesystem. Move the disk and mount the filesystem in another OS and the hardlink is still there. Reboot and the hardlink is still there. Bind mounts are on the OS level. Not only you would need to separately command the other OS to bind mount after you move and mount the disk. If you...

Full answer by Kamil Maciorowski: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/1523307 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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