Why is my custom script running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is throwing an error: "Invalid cross-device link"?
Typically, this error results when the scripts in questions are using ln command and have tried to create a hard-link across filesystems.
Since it is not possible to create hard-links for files across filesystems, the ln command errors. Below is an example of this:
[root@localhost ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/V...Subscriber exclusive content
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