I hope this is responding to the several people who responded. Thanks for responding. You all had the same question, whether all the characteristics of the files are the same. To know for sure I have to wait till I get back to work tomorrow, Basically I did cp -r source dest this was to make an exact backup of source, so I could later rsync source with link-dest set to dest. Basically cp -r source dest rsync -a --delete --link-dest=dest/ source/ bkup/ of course, dest, source, and bkup were actually different names. I just called them source, dest, bkup for ease of reading above. The source directory had simple files. I just did for a in a b c do date > $a done just made files a, b, and c with the date. Looking at the inodes, every file had a different inode. And if I edited (vi) bkup/c and added lines to it, in dest/c the file was not changed, showing it was not linked.
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