From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Sep 2 11:37:58 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59BBDE0E581 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2017 11:37:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from bca5.email-od.com (bca5.email-od.com [207.246.239.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2DB1D83171 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2017 11:37:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1504352273; x=1506944273; h=x-thread-info:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MWuQ4gjz8ikcu2Q4742g60TSe7qZQhoqD77iqNOmnyQ=; b=ALKoAR0vywwu/NkihwPbZzCPN1dCvui7E7NMJ40xq8IFTB3FSlQTX0j23qpchJbboL71KWfESqEI3VQyEu/F25WT211ANOSiDzd2i1dV0I2YKDRXj50KbPkehDuku3io1j8LNur5uiPOYCy0+StQ2y/1J1n7lDmdGrunHogRZOo= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi5kZDAwMDAwMDZlYWEzNC5mcmVlYnNkLXF1ZXN0aW9ucz1mcmVlYnNkLm9yZw== Received: from r1.us-west-2a.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r1.us-west-2a.aws.in.socketlabs.com [54.186.235.111]) by bca2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Sat, 2 Sep 2017 07:37:47 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r1.us-west-2a.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Sat, 2 Sep 2017 07:37:51 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.89 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1do6kH-000EuB-2p for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 11:37:49 +0000 Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 12:37:48 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anything specific to keep in mind restoring from rsync ? Message-Id: <20170902123748.e0508a02d987803c765a6ccc@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20170818074902.GA91334@gmail.com> <20170825023237.9b6b22b2.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 11:37:58 -0000 On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 01:58:05 +0000 Manish Jain wrote: > > > On 08/25/17 06:02, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:13:38 +0000, Manish Jain wrote: > >> But I am inclined to ask one question here : does FreeBSD actually have > >> any system-installed hard links (other than . and ..) ? > > > > Several. A good example is the content of /rescue > > > So I learn from you/WB that I goofed up : - ) > > My /rescue indeed now has all files therein as separate files (unique > inodes). If the system has any more hard links, then my box would be > hosting them as separate files. > > Is it okay if I keep using this box as-is-now (no hard links) ? The box > runs fantastically well. It'll work fine, just uses more disk space. Upgrades should eventually fix the links I think. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith