FW: softlink/hardlink
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holp, John Mr.
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 9:44 AM
> To: 'debian-usr@lists.debian.org'
> Subject: softlink/hardlink
>
> Debain Experts,
>
> I have some confusion relative to soft links versus hard links and inode
> numbers. If I do the following;
>
> ls -li vmlinuz while at / (root)
> I get the following
>
> 12 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jan 18 08:05
> vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17
>
> To me this means that vmlinuz is a soft link pointing to
> boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17
>
> But when I do a ls -li /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 I get the following
>
> 12 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1042807 Jan 18 08:05
> /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17
>
>
> Here is my confusion, I thought only hard links used the same inode
> number? Note that both are using inode 12.
>
> Which begs the question how do you determine by inspection a soft link
> versus a hard link?
>
> If both were the same size that would tend to point to a hard link but in
> this instance vmlinuz is only 19 versus 1042807 for the
> /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17
>
> Somewhere along the way I must have mistakenly learned that only hard
> links use the same inode number?
>
> Please school me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
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