hardlink Questions

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I am trying to create soft links between config files containing server blocks in the sites-enabled and sites-available directories in /etc/nginx/. The command I am using is: sudo ln -s sites-ava...
Octroi asked 6/8, 2013 at 20:10

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How do I create file hardlink in PowerShell on Windows 10? PSCX has New-Hardlink, but is it still needed on Windows 10? You could always shell out to mklink, but from powershell that requires yo...
Borderer asked 6/8, 2015 at 18:30

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I am having a PowerShell script which is walking a directory tree, and sometimes I have auxiliary files hardlinked there which should not be processed. Is there an easy way of finding out whether a...
Johore asked 3/5, 2009 at 19:27

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I want to write a program that shows the files of another drive with hard links. I want to keep both hardlinks consistent in filename and other things, so I have to get a function/method where I c...
Nalda asked 16/11, 2010 at 10:45

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Recently I was asked this during a job interview. I was honest and said I knew how a symbolic link behaves and how to create one, but do not understand the use of a hard link and how it differs fro...
Thermodynamics asked 9/10, 2008 at 4:5

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I am creating an app in which I would like to make use of hardlinks and symlinks in the Android external memory filesystem. I have tried using the commands Os.link("oldpath", "newpath"); Os.link("...
Prehension asked 4/7, 2017 at 21:4

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ln -s /dir1/file1 /dir2/file1 I'd like to create a softlink in target dir1 with same filename as source in dir2 How is this done without typing the file1 name over in the target path
Excisable asked 8/2, 2014 at 2:5

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I am in the process of refactoring and "dockerizing" a legacy application made of shell scripts, C++ binaries, and various open-sources packages (among which httpd) Is there a way to create, in a ...
Gaol asked 27/3, 2019 at 15:5

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Is there a way to hard-link all the duplicate objects in a folder containing multiple Git repositories? Explanation: I am hosting a Git server on my company server (Linux machine). The idea is to...
Hamitic asked 15/9, 2014 at 8:17

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How to create a hardlink in C#? Any code snippet, please?
Renelle asked 2/8, 2010 at 12:23

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it might be a stupid question but: http://dwaves.de/2015/05/26/linux-search-find-files-locate-find-linux-locate-scope/ bind mounts under linux: as far as i understand it: you can mount the same ...
Freetown asked 26/5, 2015 at 9:7

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I want to create a new Hardlink with the PowerShell Community Extensions PSCX commandlet New-Hardlink http://pscx.codeplex.com/. I have read the man file and tried almost every combination of comma...
Stenosis asked 20/8, 2009 at 7:2

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Given a directory, how do I find all files within it (and any sub-directories) that are not hard-linked files? Or more specifically, that are not hard-linked files with more than one reference? Ba...
Brasca asked 29/4, 2013 at 15:34

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I want to create a hardlink to a file using golang. os.Link() tells me, that windows is not supported. Therefore i tried to use os.exec, to call "mklink.exe". cmd := exec.Command("mklink.exe", "/H...
Dempsey asked 28/5, 2013 at 19:36

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I have an Android app with some C code that uses the link(2) system call to create a hard link to an existing file. When I execute the app on Android 5.0.2, this part of the app works. When I execu...
Dreiser asked 3/9, 2015 at 1:37

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How do you check whether a file is a hard link in Go? os.FileMode only has a mode for symlinks, not hard links. I had an idea that unfortunately doesn't work: package main func main() { filename ...
Kyleekylen asked 8/8, 2015 at 2:14

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How can I tell if a file-system path is a hard link with Node.js? The function fs.lstat gives a stats object that, when given a hard link will return true for stats.isDirectory() and stats.isFile()...
Kalgan asked 5/8, 2015 at 4:8

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I'm using Windows 8.1. There appears to be an inconsistency. Windows states adding hardlinks to a file doesn't use much disk space, and this makes sense since you're only creating a pointer. Howe...
Trial asked 21/1, 2015 at 21:47

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I'm a photographer and doing many backups. Over the years I found myself with a lot of hard drives. Now I bought a NAS and copied all my pictures on one 3TB raid 1 using rsync. According to my scri...
Splanchnology asked 21/6, 2013 at 23:35

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In order to save on server side bandwidth costs associated with my iOS application, I've packaged a bunch of assets that would otherwise be downloadable at runtime into my iOS application bundle. I...
Squinteyed asked 11/4, 2014 at 15:32

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According to the man page for FileInfo, the following information is available when stat()ing a file in Go: type FileInfo interface { Name() string // base name of the file Size() int64 // lengt...
Spinner asked 10/11, 2014 at 23:31

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How could I get the list of all linked files on my system or from a certain directory. I used to create links but they became unmanageable with time. I want the list of all such links from a direct...
Solstice asked 27/11, 2009 at 19:31

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Is there some equivalent in Mercurial to NIX soft- or hard- links to directories or files. Basically that a file (or directory) is linked to a file "somewhere else" and follows the version of that...
Norvell asked 16/2, 2013 at 9:19

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How can I create a hard link to a directory in Mac OS X? This feature has been added to their file system in Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard) (for time machine), but I could...
Malm asked 16/9, 2009 at 12:1

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I know FAT32, as well as FAT16/12 neither support symbolic links nor hard-links. However I came up with this idea: The FAT specification describes that every file is associated with a directory-en...
Cowley asked 28/12, 2010 at 11:4

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