#hardlink — Public Fediverse posts

Explainer: inodes and inode numbers

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/10/04/explainer-inodes-and-inode-numbers/

Watching some #C code running in that window over there -> slowly consume more and more and more memory. But don't worry! It's not leaking! Honest! That's just what #hardlink does.

In other news, the patch I contributed a few years ago to make it work on a Mac has been tweaked and moved around and so on to the extent that the only line #GitBlame now says is my fault is, errm, a single `#endif` 😃

https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/blame/master/misc-utils/hardlink.c#L212

I'm not a programmer, but sometimes I code anyway.

Since I often use that code on my headless server, I'm used to edit with nano, but that's not always very handy. So today I started looking for an #FTP extension in #VSCODE, to let me edit and then upload to the server.
It didn't go well, because most plugins have bad ratings, so I didn't even try any. Then I remembered that #WinSCP can do FTP as well.. Well, it works wonders!

After I connect to my server's FTP, I can just double click any file in the remote pane of WinSCP and edit them on the fly with whatever application is tied to the file's extension; save and it's already there.

So, now, for a simple #XMPP bot which is actually a single #python file, I created an #hardlink from source dir to another dir inside ~/ftp and it's double magic. After I save on VSCODE, it's saved in the FTP dir and in the source dir as well!

💛

I think this is nerdy but I want to share.

Something I just did makes me feel dumb, but also makes me laugh at myself.

I thought I had two identical files that could be optimized by making one a hard-link of the other. I deleted one and hard-linked to recreate it.

I saw I had three hard-links on the file.

The third hard-link was in my trash bin.

I had not checked to see if the two files were already hard-linked before I deleted the one.

#PC #filesystem #hardlink #Linux

#hardlink is a duplicate file linker.

hardlink links files with identical content together using hardlinks. hardlink can include metadata in its difference checking, and can prefer files based on their metadata. hardlink supports a dry run mode for quickly examining the operation safely. hardlink also supports inclusion and exclusion regexes.

Website 🔗️: https://jak-linux.org/projects/hardlink/

apt 📦️: hardlink

#free #opensource #foss #fossmendations #sysadmin

Explaining Soft Link And Hard Link In Linux With Examples #SoftLink #SymbolicLink #HardLink #ln #LinuxBasics #BASH #CLI #linuxhowto
https://www.ostechnix.com/explaining-soft-link-and-hard-link-in-linux-with-examples/