2005/8/30, Graeme Humphries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Guy Dallaire wrote: > > >Yes, thanks. I know about hard links. But how would it impact the size > >or performance of my backups ? > > > Well, if a file is hard linked multiple times, it'll be backed up > multiple times. Therefor, a filesystem with tons of hard links will take > a really long time to back up. :) > > >And is there a way to find the number of HARD links ? > > > > > Find should do this... let's see... Yep, according to "man find", %n in > its internal printf will give you the number of hard links to a file. > So, something like this should give you useful output about what files > have multiple hard links: > > find . -printf "%n %p\n" | sort -r >
Unfortunately, looks like sun's find command does not have the printf option built in. What is strange tough is that if I do a "find /disk1 -links +1" I find a LOT of files. According to find's man page, the links +1 parameter predicate is true if file has n links....
