Actually, now would be a good time to remember what we talked about last night about hard links. Note that there is a "3" next to "root" in the the long listing. This means that there are three (hard) links to the file. I would guess that these files really are the same (hard linked). The way to determine this for sure is to run "ls -li".
Interesting. On the system I initially checked, all the links were one and the inodes were different. This was on a whitebox system. I just now checked on my Mandrake 10.0 system and they are hardlinked. Weird.
Whitebox:
% ls -li /sbin/mkfs.ext* /sbin/mke2fs 325884 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 32056 Dec 12 01:12 /sbin/mke2fs* 325887 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 32056 Dec 12 01:12 /sbin/mkfs.ext2* 325888 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 32056 Dec 12 01:12 /sbin/mkfs.ext3*
Mandrake 10.0:
% ls -li /sbin/mkfs.ext* /sbin/mke2fs 58720523 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 30668 Feb 26 03:54 /sbin/mke2fs* 58720523 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 30668 Feb 26 03:54 /sbin/mkfs.ext2* 58720523 -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 30668 Feb 26 03:54 /sbin/mkfs.ext3*
So, there you go...
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