[Gllug] Which files link to an inode?

Simon Morris simon.morris at penguinit.com
Wed Apr 23 15:46:00 UTC 2003


<quote who="Mick Farmer">
> Dear Simon,
>
> Every directory has at least two hard links (one from the
> parent and one from itself), so counts above two show how
> many sub-directories (minus two) are in each of your
> directories.  So your example shows a number of directories
> containing sub-directories with all the regular files having
> only one hard link each.

Ahhh. That all makes sense. So unfortunately the server not clearing space
after deleting files isn't due to multiple links.

Back to the drawing board -- thanks for all your help everyone.

-- 
Simon Morris
simon.morris at penguinit.com


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