[NTLUG:Discuss] symbolic links

[Eric Schnoebelen]

"Darin W. Smith" writes:
- As long as it is a *symbolic* link, rm will just remove the link
- (don't do that on hard links though, because a hard link is really
- the original file)

	Actually, even as a hard link, rm(1) will just remove
that name for the file.

	When the last link to the file is removed, then the file's
space is deallocated, and the inode removed.

	So, if you have a file with multiple hard links (the
space efficent way to do it) the file will remain as long as one
hard link exists.

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