On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Keith Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Ted Gervais wrote:
>
> >
> > That is what I thought; files in /proc dir are virtual files and do not
> > occupy any real disk space. However, when I copied that file over to
> > another directory I saw that it indeed was 134 megs large? HOw is that
> > possible.
> >
>
> was the other directory on the same fs/partition as / ? if so, I
> don't think copying actually writes a new file but simply adds a
> new link, or increases the link count by one.
cp ALWAYS makes a copy. You are thinking about mv, which just moves a
link.
> so, here is a real basic question maybe a lot of newbies have: what
> really happens when we copy a file in linux within the same
> partition?
You end up with two distinct copies of the file
Frank
>
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