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How can I delete a hardlink to a directory?
Before I get 100s of answers that tell me it is impossible to hardlink directories in linux: yes, I know that.
The file in question appeared in lost+fount after I checked the filesystem with e2fsck ...
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How do I manually modify an inode?
I am using Ubuntu Linux and, just for fun, I want to create a hardlink to a directory (as seen here). Because I'm just doing this for fun, I'm not looking for any sort of pre-developed ...
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Can we use symbolic link and hard link for directories?
I know we can do that for files. What about directories?
It seems that cpanel uses that a lot.
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How to find all the links to a directory
When I stat a directory I get a listing that tell me there are 5 links to the directory.
stat dir
My question is how do I get information (names and locations) to all these 5 links?
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Why is '.' a hard link in Unix?
I've seen many explanations for why the link count for an empty directory in Unix based OSes is 2 instead of 1. They all say that it's because of the '.' directory, which every directory has pointing ...
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Why hard links not allowed to directories in UNIX/Linux
I read in text books that UNIX/Linux doesn't allows hard links to directories but soft links do. Is it because, when we have cycles and if we create hardlinks, and after some time we delete the ...
