Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:31:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx> Cc: Rik Schneider <rik@netasset.com>, "Larry S. Marso" <larry@marso.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: odd /stand directory Message-ID: <19981006133117.V27781@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199810060300.UAA01789@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 08:00:19PM -0700 References: <361915A2.8870E5AE@webwizard.org.mx> <199810060300.UAA01789@dingo.cdrom.com>
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[Format autorecovered at freebie.lemis.com] On Monday, 5 October 1998 at 20:00:19 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> Rik Schneider wrote: >> >>> What you are seeing is a single file with 19 links. If you want to make >>> sure of that you can run du -k (as a not root user) or ls -i on the >>> /stand directory. >>> >> >> In my case that isn't true. I have nice sequential inodes:-), >> although what you're saying makes a lot more sense. I think I will >> test and change it, but I don't understand how it got that way in >> the first place. > > You must have backed up and restored badly. /stand is only ever written > by sysinstall during the early phase of the installation, and it always > links everything together. You should expect the inode numbers to be > around 20 or so. If you look at his original message, that's what you saw (19 of them). This just doesn't tally with the claim that they're all different inodes, unless there are 18 copies of each inode somewhere else. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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