[nmglug] hard,soft,link,inode

[Casey Dentinger]

When you ls -l

-rw-r--r--  1

That number after the mode is the number of hard links.  Hard links are all literally the file and share its attributes so I don't think one would be considered the original.  As for sym links they are just files on disk that afaik the target knows nothing about.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, at 3:56 PM, a wrote:
> Hi
> 
> If I have a file or directory and would like to now if it is the 
> original file or directory of a link can I confirm the fact by reading 
> an inode some where or some how?
> 
>   Thanks, a
> 
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