my manpage for tar has:
--hard-dereference follow hard links; archive and dump the files they refer to ---- How do you follow a hard link? Isn't it the same as a regular file except the link count shows another name linked to the inode as well? How do you follow it? What is this switch suppose to do? (Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I don't get how you'd follow a hard link vs. not follow it)...