On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:03:13PM -0600, macintoshzoom wrote: > It seems that it's Ok, I confused (konqueror lied me) soft and hard > linked files, (which I ignored the existence till today, nor I > understand yet why those hard links are useful).
Any file is linked to a directory entry by a hard link. A file can have more than one hard link from several directory entries. If a file has zero hard links and no program has it open, it will be deleted. > > # cd /usr/ports/packages/i386/cdrom > # ls -i kde-i18n-nl-3.5.9.tgz > 890218 kde-i18n-nl-3.5.9.tgz > # cd /usr/ports/packages/i386/all > # ls -i kde-i18n-nl-3.5.9.tgz > 890218 kde-i18n-nl-3.5.9.tgz > # > > So both have the same inode # 890218 (it's like that?), so I am > understanding that they are the same file, not twice space used on my > hard drive. > > I am right? yes. The whole point is that you can have a single file appearing in multiple places in the directory hierarchy, without wasting space. -Otto