On 07/04/14 14:04, [email protected] wrote: > I apologize for a trivial question but that's because I yet have not much > experience with Linux. > > I made, some time ago, a copy of the smb.conf file, for security reasons, > before making to it any changes: > (cp smb.conf.original smb.conf.original.orig ) > > Yesterday I wanted to give a look at the contents of the old > file(smb.conf.original)that I had copied; butI found that both files have the > same content. > > I made other changes, in order to do experiments, and I have always seen that > the changes made to a file are always shown on the other file. > > The command "ls -l" shows the two files are colored blue which (I think) > indicates that the files are a link to each other. > > Since I am convinced that I used the "cp" command;my question is: > which mistake can I have made to create a link of the fileinstead of a copy > of it?
I don't rely on colors.... egreshko@meimei ~]$ ls -li nvidia* 8651522 -rw-rw-r--. 2 egreshko egreshko 135 Jan 30 07:29 nvidia 8651522 -rw-rw-r--. 2 egreshko egreshko 135 Jan 30 07:29 nvidia.orig The i in the above shows the inode to be equal. Meaning the files are hard linked. [egreshko@meimei ~]$ ls -li nvidia* 8651522 -rw-rw-r--. 1 egreshko egreshko 135 Jan 30 07:29 nvidia 8652457 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 egreshko egreshko 6 Jul 4 15:34 nvidia.orig -> nvidia Shows the inode to be different. But noticed the way nvidia.org is presented. This is a symbolic link. -- If you can't laugh at yourself, others will gladly oblige. -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
