Many file systems support "hard links" where a file appear under several different names. The names are all equally good and the underlying storage is only freed when all names are deleted.
Questions tagged [hardlink]
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How do i hardlink /run to /var/run on debian? (And should i be doing it?)
I'm trying to copy the root file system of a Debian unstable system. I get the following warnings when i do this:
gw:/# cp -xar / /mnt/1.tmp/
cp: will not create hard link `/mnt/1.tmp/var/run' to directory `/mnt/1.tmp/run'
cp: will not create hard…
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Cwd of a process started from hard link path
I have an app which is starting by path which contains a folder which is hard link.
If I look for process current working directory it is same as source of a hard link.
The main problem is that app has relative path for writing logs and etc. So logs…
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NAS de-duplication best practices - how do hardlinks handle compression?
I just joined a SMB as their first full-time tech guy, and the company's backup architecture is a mess. Leaving aside all other issues (of which there are many), the office has multiple different NAS devices and disorganised backups all over the…
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ln: failed to create hard link: Too many links
I have a pipeline on my server which creates a lot of hard links to big files. today I realized it fails and shows this error:
ln: failed to create hard link to '/path/to/a/file': Too many links
The filesystem is ext4 and dir_nlink is enabled:
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Windows hardlinks - why it consumes same space as original file
Im using finddupe tool to de-duplicate files and save some space on HDD.
But checking before and after operation I cant see any free space released - see below.
Can somebody advise what is wrong here ?
D:\TEMP\1>dir
30.09.2021 12:50 …
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It is possible that a process can not link a file, but I can with sudo for the same user?
I am working with Dovecot 2.3.4.1 and EncFS (encfs version 1.9.5) encrypted mailboxes on Debian 10 (no SELinux)
Basic setup is:
EncFS mounted with
encfs --public /var/encrypted-mail /var/decrypted-mail -o nonempty…
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Hard Link for Directories in linux
Hai,
How can i create hard link for my directories ?
When i use to make link from /var to /home it shows error on "Invalid cross-device link", How can i over come it ?
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How to detect hardlinks over network share?
I swear I had this working at one point ages ago but now it's not. I have a Windows 10 machine with a Linux network share. I can create hard links on the network share just fine, but I cannot detect them. For instance, I run a file duplication…
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