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To: Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx>
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Subject: Re: odd /stand directory 
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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:00:19 -0700
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> Rik Schneider wrote:
> 
> > What you are seeing is a single file with 19 links.  If you want to make
> > sure of that  you can run du -k (as a not root user) or ls -i on the
> > /stand directory.
> >
> 
> In my case that isn't true.  I have nice sequential inodes:-), although what you're saying makes a lot more sense.  I
> think I will test and change it, but I don't understand how it got that way in the first place.

You must have backed up and restored badly.  /stand is only ever written
by sysinstall during the early phase of the installation, and it always
links everything together.  You should expect the inode numbers to be 
around 20 or so.

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