Quoting Holp, John Mr. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ls -li vmlinuz while at / (root) > I get the following > > 12 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jan 18 08:05 ^ a hard link would increase this number...
> vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 > > To me this means that vmlinuz is a soft link pointing to > boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 > > But when I do a ls -li /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 I get the following > > 12 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1042807 Jan 18 08:05 ^ ... and this number. > /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 > > > Here is my confusion, I thought only hard links used the same inode > number? Note that both are using inode 12. Are they on different filesystems? Inode numbers are only unique to each filesystem. $ ls -lid /lost+found/ /usr/lost+found/ /var/lost+found/ /tmp/lost+found/ /home/lost+found/ 11 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jul 5 1999 /home/lost+found/ 11 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jul 25 2000 /lost+found/ 11 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jul 25 2000 /tmp/lost+found/ 11 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Jul 25 2000 /usr/lost+found/ 11 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Jul 25 2000 /var/lost+found/ Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.