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Date:      Thu, 9 Mar 2023 11:01:49 +0100
From:      Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com>
To:        Olivier <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>
Cc:        guru@unixarea.de, pho@freebsd.org, steve@sohara.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem while moving HOME from FreeBSD to MacOS with bsdtar
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On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 11:01 AM Olivier <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:
>
> > I read that differently: it's a single entry (see 'ls -li' further
> > up), but matches any case:
> >
> >> $ ls -li Homework HOMEWORK
> >> 4016236 -rw-r--r--  1 apitzm  OCLC\Domain Users  0  9 Mär 09:37 HOMEWORK
> >> 4016236 -rw-r--r--  1 apitzm  OCLC\Domain Users  0  9 Mär 09:37 Homework
>
> In Unix parlance, it is called a link (or a hard link): two filenames
> (possibly in two different directories, but must be in the same file
> system) sharing a single inode.

actually no - the link count is 1.

>
> That is completely normal, but that should not be what is created by tar
> -x (or by touch) by default.
>
> Bests,
>
> Olivier



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Michael Schuster
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