Questions tagged [hard-link]
A hard link is file system entry that associates a name with another file on a file system.
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How to programmatically deduplicate files into hard links while maintaining the time stamps of the containing directories?
Continuing https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/22822, how to deduplicate files, given as a list, into hardlinks, while maintaining the timestamps of their directories? Unfortunately, hardlinks changes ...
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How to get `rsync --link-dest=` hard-link moved/renamed files
I am trying to set up rsnapshot for backing up a remote server.
However, I realize that my issue is with rsync (rsnapshot’s
back-end), not with rsnapshot itself. Thus I am focusing the question on
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Why are symbolic links more common than hard links in Unix/Linux? [closed]
I frequently find myself googling the difference between symbolic links and hard links. Each time, I conclude that hard links seem superior in most use cases, especially when Linux is my daily driver. ...
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Is a filesystem without hard links practical as /home on Linux?
I have a novel filesystem in mind, but the structure makes it impossible to implement more than one hard link to each inode. ("." and ".." are handled differently.)
It is not ...
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How to Avoid Copying Large Folders When Creating a chroot Sandbox Using Symlinks, Hard Links, or Bind Mount?
I am working on creating a chroot sandbox and want to avoid the time-consuming and storage-intensive process of copying large directories such as bin, lib, and others.
Is it possible to use symbolic ...
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ls long listing column "number of hard links": What does that mean? [duplicate]
Please shed some light on that erratic, second column of ls -l, that numeric column between the 1st one - the permission string - and the third one - the user ownership.
I just can't pin it down, what ...
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Why hard link doesn't corrupt if we remove the original file? [duplicate]
Why the hard link doesn't corrupt if we remove the original file?
If I remove the original file then the softlink gets corrupt but hard link doesn't so why it does't corrupt
Rahul Sharma
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mirror a directory tree by hard links for file contents and symlinks for directory structure
what is the best way to mirror an entire directory, say original/, to a new directory, say mirror/, which has the structure mirror/data/ and mirror/tree/, such that
every file in the directory ...
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Creating hard links [duplicate]
$ ln fun fun-hard
$ ln fun dir1/fun-hard
$ ln fun dir2/fun-hard
$ ls -1
total 16
drwxrwxr-x 2 me 4096 2018-01-14 16:17 dir1
drwxrwxr-x 2 me 4096 2018-01-14 16:17 dir2
-rw-r—-r—- 4 me 1650 2018-01-10 ...
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Hard link as destination of cp and rsync
Where do I find documentation of behavior of cp and rsync commands when the destination path shares the inode with another path? In other words, when I do
$ cp [options] src dest
$ rsync [options] src ...
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Creating a hard link increases the hard link count for two names
gui@Latitude:~$ cd playground
gui@Latitude:~/playground$ ls -l
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 gut gut 4096 set 20 16:18 dir1
-rw-r--r-- 1 gut gut 2903 set 20 14:46 gato
gui@Latitude:~/playground $ ln gato gato-...
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creating hard links Linux question [duplicate]
From the book The Linux Command Line by William Shotts, page 33:
So now we have four instances of the file fun. Let's take a look at
our playground directory.
[me@linuxbox playground]$ ls -1
total 16
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How do I get the number of hardlinks of a folder?
I am on Mac. However, I use gstat (GNU stat) so my understanding is that behavior should match linux.
I cd to a folder. Then I use gstat --format=%h .. The output is 65.
Next, I use gfind . -maxdepth ...
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How does `ls` find hard links?
Setup
The following sequence of commands is setup for my question.
root@cd330f76096d:/# cd
root@cd330f76096d:~# ls
root@cd330f76096d:~# mkdir -p my_dir/my_subdir
root@cd330f76096d:~# ls -...
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archiver/backups does not save/restore hardlinks
I will explain what kind of hardlinks and where and why they appeared, and why to save them.
pictures on the server are saved:
../foto/M/ay/uZbIKBgsXr0222858001661067986M
../foto/M/ay/...
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