On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Tom Davies wrote:
My understanding of hard-links is sketchy but i think they don't create copies of files http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/understanding-unixlinux-symbolic-soft-and-hard-links.html
Hard links use another node for the same file; that's equivalent to making copies. Each directory has a limited, but large, number of nodes available. That's why a partition can be out of space while not completely filled if there are several thousand tiny files in it. Rich -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
