QUESTION : I faced a little strange behavior, while using hard links. From Terminal, I create a text file 1.txt […]
Tag: hardlink
replace hard links with copies
Problem : I have a file which has other hard links. I want to let it become independent. I know […]
rsync: how to recreate hard-links after removed and recreated a file?
Problem : This is what I have: –dir1 —-file1 —-file2 Then I created another directory dir2 with hard-links. –dir2 —-file1 […]
Why does du -sl show different sizes for the source and result of a cp -rl?
Problem : I have used cp -rl to copy a folder. When measuring the size of the source and of […]
Using hard links to move Windows Users folder
QUESTION : I’m currently trying to move bulky folders from my SSD to my HDD (my Users folder and ProgramData […]
copying a file to a hard link
Problem : I recently got bit by a misbehaving in a bash script of mine and was wondering: is this […]
How can I find hard links on Windows?
QUESTION : I’ve created some hard links on my Windows 7 file system using mklink. It was some time ago […]
How to remove multiple links to the same directory?
Problem : I have a broken lxd installation and want to completely delete it and start over, but there’s a […]
How can I create hard links in OSX?
QUESTION : What I want is to have multiple copies of the same file, and whenever I edit one of […]
How can I find all hardlinked files on a filesystem?
Problem : I need to find all hardlinked files on a given filesystem. E.g. get a list of files, each […]