hard link

Any number of hard links to the physical data may be created.

A hard link is simply a reference to some data on disk.

Hard links can only be created to files on the same volume.

Now let's make a hard link, again using the command, but this time with no flags.

The command can reveal how many hard links point to a given file.

Most file systems that support hard links use reference counting.

This would avoid hard links to functionality that does not exist.

In effect, every plain file is a hard link.

Hard links are represented as different names with the same inode number.

A link count telling how many hard links point to the inode.

The shell command normally uses the system call, which creates a hard link.

On extraction, such hard links should be recreated in the file system.

This reminds me, one thing I need to learn with Windows is how to create "hard links."

In the past, investigators had struggled to find a hard link to the 19 hijackers or their associates.

Hard links cannot be created for files between volumes; this is comparable to moving the file in the library example above.

The term is used in file systems which allow multiple hard links to be created for the same file.

That can't happen to a hard link.

Hard links are implemented by storing the same inode number with more than one file name.

The directory contains mostly "hard links" to files that exist elsewhere.

This can either be done using hard links, or using binary diffs.

Time Machine appears to create multiple hard links to unmodified directories.

- Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link.

Some editors however break the hard link concept, e.g. emacs.

One particularly scary example is the implementation of hard links on HFS+.

On many Linux systems, is a symbolic or hard link to Bash.