Randall R Schulz wrote:
That said, other properties of hard links are relevant here. One is that hard links may not refer to directories (except for the one link that give the directory its name within its parent directory and the "." link that refers to itself).
This makes setting a hard link in this sitation no an option nor workable. No, the answere to this problem lies more with SuSE's automounting process that I believe is at the kernel level and the assignment of the drive in scsi emulation mode. Remember that being a USB drive it is recognized as /dev/sda. Secondly the device hardware name is used. How to get around this is not known. Links of any kind do not work if the drive is to be exported and made available to other systems on the network. remain clueless..;) /ch