Hi Otto Moerbeek,
Now I'm starting to understand about hard links.
Thank to all you folks.
I am (very) strong on some matters, but a complete ignorant in most Unix
questions, but learning fast anyway.
Mac.
Otto Moerbeek wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:03:13PM -0600, macintoshzoom wrote:
It seems that it's Ok, I confused (konqueror lied me) soft and hard
linked files, (which I ignored the existence till today, nor I
understand yet why those hard links are useful).
Any file is linked to a directory entry by a hard link. A file can
have more than one hard link from several directory entries.
If a file has zero hard links and no program has it open, it will be
deleted.
# cd /usr/ports/packages/i386/cdrom
# ls -i kde-i18n-nl-3.5.9.tgz
890218 kde-i18n-nl-3.5.9.tgz
# cd /usr/ports/packages/i386/all
# ls -i kde-i18n-nl-3.5.9.tgz
890218 kde-i18n-nl-3.5.9.tgz
#
So both have the same inode # 890218 (it's like that?), so I am
understanding that they are the same file, not twice space used on my
hard drive.
I am right?
yes. The whole point is that you can have a single file appearing in
multiple places in the directory hierarchy, without wasting space.
-Otto
