Keith Keller wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:56:07AM +1200, Smithies, Russell wrote: >> This may be more of a general linux question but is there a simple way of preventing users from creating symlinks to or from certain directories? >> I have a /scratch dir that's a single 27TB volume and I don't want users linking their home dirs as there's a chance it will screw up our external backups. > > Can't your backups simply ignore symlinks? Or (more sensibly) backup > the symlinks as links, instead of dereferencing them? > > Perhaps SELinux can do what you want, but it seems like overkill > compared to telling the backup program what to backup (and what not). > +10