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How to delete all hardlinks to the same file (inode)?

I've used Link Shell Extension to create a bunch of hardlinks in different directories within the same hard drive (to save space, as I need both stored in different locations). When I want to delete ...
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On Windows 7 how do you check to see if a file is a hardlink? [duplicate]

I just created a hardlink in Windows 7 using mklink. When I use dir the output doesn't indicate that the new hardlink is a hardlink. Instead it looks exactly like the file it is pointing to. Example ...
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hardlinking takes a lot of space

I made an rsync incremental backup script for my server that will copy a MySQL database backup and a specified folder path to a remote server. Here's the code on Github. Code excerpt from lines 53-57:...
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Unable to preserve hard links. Why?

I'm trying to create a Makefile that would automate remastering Knoppix distribution. I'm trying to copy filesystem from the read-only compressed loop device to normal filesystem to be able to modify ...
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