On Wednesday 03 February 2010 20:37:36 Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > just out of curiosity: is there any quick way to find all > hard- and soft-links on a system? I just want to be sure > they were all created after I moved system from the old disk > to the new one...
Soft links are easy app-misc/symlinks and/or "find / -type l" will do the job nicely. Hard links are much harder to find. They are files, nothing more, nothing less, so you have to examine the link count: find / -type f -links +1 -ls ought to do it. It will not tell you what else links to a given dentry, you have to eyeball the entire jigsaw puzzle to piece that together. Sort the output by file size, if you find 5 entries with a link count of 5 and the same size and timestamps, they are probably all hardlinked to the same inode. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
