David Ryder wrote: > ... >> The underlying reason is that a softlink is a 'reference in a >> directory' to another 'directory entry'. When you delete a file or >> directory, the filesystem has no 'local' record of who else may be >> pointing to (referencing it). So, it stops there, rather than scanning >> the entire filesystem when you delete each file to look for possible >> floating softlinks. > Much like Microsoft then. I thought a table was kept in linux. > > Is there a way to list broken symlinks? > > Thanks for explaining it to me, I very much appreciate your help.
Another issue is that symlinks can be on separate file systems from what they link to, whereas hard links cannot. So even if there was a table of back links on disk, it would only work within the same file system. Paul
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