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From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@video2video.com>,
	Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
Subject: Re: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS:
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On Thursday 08 August 2002 09:12 pm, Peter Leftwich wrote:
| On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
| >     No, less is not hardlinked to more, nor is more hardlinked to less.
| >     They're two names for the same file.
| >
| >     So... Yes, you're right: less is really more. But at the same time,
| >     more is less.
|
| This thread leaves one craving simplicity -- anyway, a question.
|
| So can you delete one and not have both disappear?  I think it would be
| very quirky and perhaps rude of FreeBSD if a user did an `rm more` and less
| went with it!

No, of course not.  When you delete more, then usage count of the inode goes 
from 2 to 1.  If you delete less as well, then the disk space will actually 
be freed.


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