Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 11:05:37 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: hardlinks on ntfs/fat Message-ID: <20010507110537.U24200@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3AF66168.8032.23CAB828@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AF66168.8032.23CAB828@localhost>; from gerrit.haase@t-online.de on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 08:48:40AM +0200 On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 08:48:40AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hi cygwinners, > > how is it exactly with hardlinks? > > I got a directory with some files (about 5000), > and i made hardlinks to all of them in another directory. > > If i examine now with win-explorer, i got i the first dir > about 17 MB and in the latter about 18 MB of files. > > Are they now twice at the disk or are they relly hardlinked? If the file system is NTFS and both directories are on the same file system, then they are real hardlinks. Otherwise they are copies. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple