Thanks for your answer (I have now 133 more free blocks) but on my system they were really taking space. I guess it should be report as a bug if it causes no problem now.
/home/dodo# df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda3 762938 656385 67141 91% / /home/dodo# rm /bin/fgrep /home/dodo# df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda3 762938 656317 67209 91% / /home/dodo# rm /bin/egrep /home/dodo# df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda3 762938 656249 67277 91% / /home/dodo# ln /bin/grep /bin/egrep /home/dodo# ln /bin/grep /bin/fgrep /home/dodo# df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda3 762938 656252 67274 91% / /home/dodo# On Fri, 26 Dec 1997 George Bonser wrote: >I don't know about your system but on mine they are all hard links. These >look like regular files in a listing as opposed to symbolic likns which >show as links in a long directory listing. > >In other words, if you delete egrep and fgrep, you will not see any change >in the amount of disk space used. You use ln /bin/grep /bin/egrep to put >the link back (instead of ln -s). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .