On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 18:38, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Nitpick: hardlinks are additional inodes pointing to the same file.
Picking the same nit: hardlinks are directory entries that point to the same inode. Example: $ touch foo $ touch bar $ ls -li 144958 -rw-r--r-- 1 randy randy 0 Jan 27 20:10 bar 144957 -rw-r--r-- 1 randy randy 0 Jan 27 20:09 foo Two files, two different inodes (the number in the first column is the inode number), each with one link to the inode (the number in the column after the permissions). $ ln foo foo2 $ ls -li 144958 -rw-r--r-- 1 randy randy 0 Jan 27 20:10 bar 144957 -rw-r--r-- 2 randy randy 0 Jan 27 20:09 foo 144957 -rw-r--r-- 2 randy randy 0 Jan 27 20:09 foo2 Note that foo and foo2 have the same inode number, but now the link count for the inode is 2. Randy
