Editing Solaris 10 System Administration Part I (section)

===== creating new hard links =====

<code>ln</code> command creates new hard links to regular files

<pre>$ ln file5 file6
$ ln file5 file7
$ ln file7 file8
$ ls -il
total 64868
        54 -rw-------   1 paul     labnet    555969 May  6 13:52 file.7z
        55 -rw-r--r--   1 paul     labnet        53 May  6 13:23 file1.gz
        39 -rw-r--r--   1 paul     labnet    739704 May  6 13:42 file2.gz
        41 -rw-r--r--   1 paul     labnet         0 May  5 12:35 file3
        50 -rw-r--r--   1 paul     labnet   3976616 May  6 13:37 file4
        52 -rw-r--r--   4 paul     labnet   3976541 May  6 13:43 file5
        52 -rw-r--r--   4 paul     labnet   3976541 May  6 13:43 file6
        52 -rw-r--r--   4 paul     labnet   3976541 May  6 13:43 file7
        52 -rw-r--r--   4 paul     labnet   3976541 May  6 13:43 file8
        53 -rw-r--r--   1 paul     labnet   11934208 May  6 13:48 filetar.tar
        42 drwxr-xr-x   2 paul     labnet       512 May  5 12:45 subdir1
$</pre>

The <code>ln</code> command created files 6-8. Now files 5-8 refer to same inode [52]. Notice link count is now 4 for each of the files. You must use -i option with <code>ls</code> command to view inodes

Use find command with -inum option to find files with same inode
<pre>$ find . -inum 52
./file6
./file7
./file5
./file8</pre>

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