~sighs~ okay so im going to have to be super duper patantic then…
Yes, its true all drives are now repusented as files when mounted, HOWEVER when unmounted they are references that something exists
heres the problem:
The Linux kernel no longer supports (user-created) hard-links for directories, although every directory will always contain two hard-links, i.e. . (which points at itself) and .. (which points at its parent directory). In the event of the root directory, the link to the parent also points at the root directory itself. Given that these two links ─ i.e. . and .. ─ have a name that starts with a period, these two entries will not show up in a normal directory listing. Also, because directories cannot be hard-linked anymore, the link counter for a directory instead refers to the number of subdirectories it contains.
Because hard-links are simply additional links to the same inode, hard-linking cannot span across different filesystems.
Because the permissions, owner and group of any file or directory are stored in the inode itself, you cannot set different permissions, a different owner or a different group on the individual hard-links of a single file.
The Linux kernel no longer supports (user-created) hard-links for directories, although every directory will always contain two hard-links, i.e. . (which points at itself) and .. (which points at its parent directory). In the event of the root directory, the link to the parent also points at the root directory itself. Given that these two links ─ i.e. . and .. ─ have a name that starts with a period, these two entries will not show up in a normal directory listing. Also, because directories cannot be hard-linked anymore, the link counter for a directory instead refers to the number of subdirectories it contains.
im looking for a work around to an absolute with an absolute, i already talk to the writer, of the tutorial at the end he gave me a shrug that all i could interparte as i dunno.
is there a way to give two solutions out?