Hard link fails on same mount-point

[MR ZenWiz]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm running Xubuntu 24.0. I tried to link a file in my
> ~/Documents/excel directory to my ~/Downloads directory:
>
> $ ln ~/Documents/excel/CriticalExpenses.xls ~/Downloads/
> ln: failed to create hard link
> '/home/admar/Downloads/CriticalExpenses.xls' =>
> '/home/admar/Documents/excel/CriticalExpenses.xls': Invalid
> cross-device link
> $ df ~/Documents/excel/ ~/Downloads/
> Filesystem      1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb1      1921742316 961634300 862415960  53% /home
> /dev/sdb1      1921742316 961634300 862415960  53% /home/admar/Downloads
>
> I do have ~/Downloads bind mounted to /home/Downloads:
>
> $ mount | grep Downloads
> /dev/sdb1 on /home/Downloads type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
> /dev/sdb1 on /home/Downloads type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
> /dev/sdb1 on /home/admar/Downloads type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
>
> Is there a way around this error, other than unmounting the bind mount
> /home/Downloads? They're still on the same /home filesystem.
>
My goof. Yes, that is the problem (the bind mount).

Fixed.

MRZ