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From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: hard links
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions)
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 10:40:37 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: rewt@i-Plus.net
In-Reply-To: <199705120527.BAA04270@Radford.i-Plus.net> from Troy Settle at "May 12, 97 01:29:34 pm"
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> >
> >is there any way to determine what files are
> >hard links to s specific file?  it's obvious
> >for softlinks using "ls", but what about
> >hard links?
> >---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> Sure, take a look at this for a short example.
> 
> These two files are hard linked with 4 other files.  How do I know? 
> look at the 2nd column.  See the 6?  Tells me that there's 6 node
> thingies in use for that one file.  (I forget exactly what those
> things are called.  nevertheless, there's 6 directory entries for
> that one file.)

They called the ``number of hard links'' :-)

> -r-xr-x---  6 root  bin  36864 Feb  5 08:00 /usr/bin/chpass
> -r-xr-x---  6 root  bin  36864 Feb  5 08:00 /usr/bin/chsh

Bye, Gabor
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