The thing is that from this listing: >> 108545 drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Feb 19 17:34 usr
... I assumed that the hard links theory of files applies to directories in the very same way. That would mean that - if it were possible - there are 21 [hard] links to /usr somewhere on the system. That's what puzzled me. As you can see, I don't know much about the internals of an fs. :-) >Directories have their own inodes too, which are totally unrelated to the >inodes of any files that might be in that directory. Therefore, if you >search for the inode of a directory, you should get only that directory. >Any object in a filesystem has an inode, including named pipes, symbolic >links, device files... Hmm. I am not completely new to *nix, but named pipes I know nothing of. Anyone got any good references for me to parse? >Also keep in mind that inodes are not unique on the system, as a file can >have the same inode number as an unrelated file on different filesystems. >Because of this when you use -inum you should probably use -xdev as well. Cheers for the infos. TIA Sven
