From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Aug 19 17:34:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from granger.mail.mindspring.net (granger.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4BE37B417 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 17:34:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arlankfo@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (user-2ivemeu.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.89.222]) by granger.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA12045 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 20:34:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200108200034.UAA12045@granger.mail.mindspring.net> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: question for the experts Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 20:34:52 -0400 From: Andrew Lankford Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I noticed that when I invoke the command ls -iCF / I get this: 371 COPYRIGHT 304 kernel* 2 proc/ 11787 bin/ 372 kernel.GENERIC* 11883 root/ 36 boot/ 350 kernel.old* 294 sbin/ 11785 cdrom/ 11882 mnt/ 11777 stand/ 375 compat@ 469472 mnt2/ 370 sys@ 5888 dev/ 469472 mnt3/ 2 tmp/ 28 etc/ 154 modules/ 2 usr/ 384 home@ 11897 modules.old/ 2 var/ Now, as I read the ls man page, the -i option should list the inode of each file to the left of that file. All well and good. But aren't all truly unique files (i.e. no hard links) in a file system supposed to have unique inodes, even if the files in question are directories (i.e. just special files ) ? The tmp, usr, proc, and var directories seem to be behaving like unique directories as they should be, and mnt2 isn't mounted to the same file system as mnt3, certainly. So what gives? I'm scratching my head anyway. Is there a short answer to this puzzle? Andrew Lankford To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message