On Fri June 13 2003 05:28 am, Jan Wilson wrote: > * Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030613 05:58]: > > I have just realised that if yoiu use kde's 'create a link here', you > > get a hard link. Now I may have completely misunderstood the whole > > theory, but I thought that when you want to make what windows calls a > > shortcut, you really want a soft link? > > Probably. Hard links DO have some nice uses, for example making > successive backups. By copying hard links you can automatically make > real copies only of only the files that have changed.
Can you explain a bit more how this helps with backups? This seems interesting.... eric
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