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Are /var/mail/root and /var/spool/mail/root hardlinks for the same inode?
Just found out this:
# diff /var/mail/root /var/spool/mail/root
# (nothing)
# ls -i /var/mail/root /var/spool/mail/root
1284 /var/mail/root 1284 /var/spool/mail/root
Same content, same 1284 inode ...
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On OS X, saving breaks hard links
I'm using OS X 10.10.5, and I'm seeing a strange issue with hardlinked files. When I update one of the linked files and save the change, the other linked file becomes blank -- a zero-byte file. This ...
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All of the NTFS hard links damaged, where are those 0kb hardlinks stored and how to recover them?
This is Windows 7 x64 sp1 on a NTFS file system.
All hardlinks within C:\Windows\System32 folder disappear, and the Windows can't boot, because even the osloader, C:\Windows\System32\boot\Winload.exe ...
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Is it possible to create a file and a hardlink to it without initializing the data?
I want to create a file of 2GB, but I don't care about the contents of it. I currently use dd with /dev/zero, but this is fairly slow.
Is it possible to create a file and a hardlink to it, without ...
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