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Re: Prevent shutdown with systemctl



On Tue 05 Jan 2016 at 06:57:28 (+1000), Stuart Longland wrote:
> 
> As for symlink behaviour, directory entities all occupy inodes, and a
> symbolic link is a special type of directory entity whose content points
> to another by name.
> 
> A hard link is basically a directory entry that, rather than having its
> own inode, it shares the same inode as some other directory entity.
> It's the directory entity that has the metadata such as file name,

Yes, the directory entry has the filename and inode number...

> permissions and ownership.

... but these are in the inode, along with size and location.

Cheers,
David.


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