On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, website reader wrote: > In running md5sums against my files, I found in my home folder that > 522 files had the same identical md5sum (of the 176K+ files) but > when I did a search, they were not the same files, in fact most are > different from each other. > > Is this normal, that 522 different files give identical md5sums? I > have another set of files with 191 identical md5sums.
My first inclination would be to think that the files are hard-linked to one another. Do "ls -i" against some of the files with the same checksum. If the inode number is the same, that's the answer. -- Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> www.madboa.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
