Editing Solaris 10 System Administration Part I (section)

===== deleting hard links =====

delete files normally & link count will decrease automatically

<pre>$ rm file8
$ ls -li
total 57076
        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--   3 paul     labnet   3976541 May  6 13:43 file5
        52 -rw-r--r--   3 paul     labnet   3976541 May  6 13:43 file6
        52 -rw-r--r--   3 paul     labnet   3976541 May  6 13:43 file7
        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>

Once all files with same inode are deleted the inode will be deleted