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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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Finding all the hard-links of a file without traversing the file system
I have seen in this page that inodes have a link counter to know how many files (read: "directory entry") point to this inode. Is there a way to know which directories contain such entries without ...
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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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How hardlink and softlink works in background?
I am looking for an explanation of the following:
what happens in Linux when we create soft link and hardlink
how are they accessible
why do symlinks always display 777 permissions
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Multiple Linux or Unix Distributions, Same Home Partition or Data?
To avoid conflicts I have always installed multiple Linux and Unix distributions each with it's own home partion or directory, and in the era of 3TB hard drives this is often very practical; I also do ...
