Well, Ubuntu doesn't tell any difference between a normal file and a hard link file on gui file explore, verified by "ls -i". thanks<br/><br/>B.R.<br/>Nus At 2020-03-31 16:58:26, "Ross Burton" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 09:57, nus1998 <[email protected]> wrote: >> When I bitbaked the system, I found there are a lot of duplicate files in >> <build>/tmp, for example, there is a directory named "recipe-sysroot-native" >> in every package, which directory is serveral hundreds of MB in size. I'm >> confused that why don't use link file type to instead of duplicate copies, >> which can save tens of GB size. I know that disk capacity should not be a >> concern but it's always welcome to have a small size project. > >They are links, but hardlinks not softlinks for efficiency and even >less disk usage. > >Ross
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