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Date:      Mon, 3 Jul 2000 21:08:25 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org>
Cc:        Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Inodes and filenames
Message-ID:  <20000703210825.A48373@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20000703101323.A84689@manatee.mammalia.org>
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R Joseph Wright wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 12:46:31PM +0100, Jan Grant wrote:
>>> R Joseph Wright Wrote
>>>> I have a two part question regarding inodes. 
>>>> 
>>>> First, how can I find out whether an inode has more than one filename
>>>> associated with it?
>> 
>> If you know _one_ of the filenames, then ls -l will list the reference
>> count of the inode. For normal files, this is the number you're looking
>> for.
>> 
>> Otherwise, like Mac said,
>> 
>> 	find -x /fs -inum nnn
> 
> It seems like I _have_ to use the -x option, otherwise I get an error like: 
> 
> find: illegal option --i
> find: illegal option --n
> find: illegal option --u
> find: illegal option --m

huh?  What command are you typing to get that?  I reckon it must be
something like

$ find -inum 4

but putting '-x' in wouldn't make any difference.  So what are you actually
typing?

-- 
Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D

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