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On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 3:19 pm, Timothy James Friesen wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Weird things are going on. I updated last niht, and had the same results
> in /usr/tmp/portage and /var/tmp/portage.
>
> This is the result of an ls -la on /usr/tmp:
>
> Grenouille root # ls -la /usr/tmp/
> total 12
> drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 Jun 18 01:30 .
> drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jun 14 04:48 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 13 20:09 .keep
> drwxr-xr-x 9 portage portage 4096 Jun 18 01:33 portage
>
> This is the result of an ls -la on /var/tmp:
>
> Grenouille root # ls -la /var/tmp
> total 12
> drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 Jun 18 01:30 .
> drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jun 14 04:48 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 13 20:09 .keep
> drwxr-xr-x 9 portage portage 4096 Jun 18 01:33 portage
>
> It doesn't look like a symlink to me. And yet when I deleted
> /var/tmp/portage, /usr/tmp/portage disappeared as well. Is it possible to
> have "invisible" symlinks? What could be going on here? How do I find out
> if this is really symlinked, and why does the lnk keep reappearing after I
> delete it?
>
> I think if I get that taken care of, I might finally be able to switch the
> portage tmpdir.
>
> Thanks for all the help,
>
> Tim
Wild thought this one, but could you paste in the output of the command 'df
- -h' , Im thinking the same partition is mounted as /usr and /var ...
To anwser your question, you cant have invisable symlinks, but you can have
hardlinks whereby 2 files in different locations share the same inode
[location on the hdd], but even if this was the case, by deleting one of the
hardlinks would not delete the other one.
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Mark
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