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On Wednesday 03 February 2010 21:43:31 Stefan Schulte wrote: |
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> Hi Jarry, |
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> searching for softlinks is pretty easy: |
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> find / -type l |
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> If my understanding of hardlinks is correct you cannot say which file is |
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> the original and which file is the link. |
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It's worse than that - the concept of "original" and "the link" simply does |
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not exist at all. |
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Like invisible pink unicorns; you can't say "you can't see them so you can't |
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say if it's there or not". The truth is "There are no invisible pink unicorns" |
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> Both inodes just point to the |
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> same datablocks. But you can identify those files by checking the |
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> linkcount. |
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> find / -type f -links '+1' |
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> -Stefan |
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> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 07:37:36PM +0100, 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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> > Jarry |
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