Richard Fish schreef: > On 1/7/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Don't think I really need the inodes (if that's what they are, I > > > That is "link count". For a regular file, it tells how many hard > links exist to the file. For a directory, it tells how many files > are in that directory +2, since "." and ".." count as links. > > -Richard >
Oh, thanks. They *are* useful then (not that everything isn't "useful", but I guess I mean "to me"), so I'll eye them with more respect in the future. :-) Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list