Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:54:22 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@video2video.com>, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Jeff Jirsa <jeff@unixconsults.com>, John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>, FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Links (was: Is simplicity despised? WAS: Message-ID: <200208082254.22349.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020808211101.G85736-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020808211101.G85736-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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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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