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On Wednesday 03 February 2010 20:37:36 Jarry wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> just out of curiosity: is there any quick way to find all |
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> hard- and soft-links on a system? I just want to be sure |
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> they were all created after I moved system from the old disk |
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> to the new one... |
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Soft links are easy |
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app-misc/symlinks and/or "find / -type l" will do the job nicely. |
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Hard links are much harder to find. They are files, nothing more, nothing |
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less, so you have to examine the link count: |
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find / -type f -links +1 -ls |
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ought to do it. It will not tell you what else links to a given dentry, you |
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have to eyeball the entire jigsaw puzzle to piece that together. Sort the |
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output by file size, if you find 5 entries with a link count of 5 and the same |
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size and timestamps, they are probably all hardlinked to the same inode. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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