>"ls -il" gives you the inode-numbers, so you'll see, which files are >hard-linked. >if you need to search the whole disk, then you want to use "find -inum". Yes, that works. But only for some files I created for this test just now. Assume I try to do it for /usr: 108545 drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Feb 19 17:34 usr and now I issue: hp90:/root # find / -inum 108545 /usr All I got is /usr! How can that be explained? I must be missing something... TIA Sven