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Concept of link count in linux
Hi All,
Please explain me the concept of link counts when you try to view the contents of any file or directory using ls command.
-sh-3.00$ ls -lrt
total 194
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 12 2004 srv
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 12 2004 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 12 2004 initrd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 12 2004 home
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 24 2005 misc
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jun 26 2006 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 26 2006 selinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 26 2006 post
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jun 26 2006 boot
drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 4096 Nov 2 2006 var
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Feb 15 2008 usr
drwxr-xr-x 12 mqm mqm 4096 Sep 26 12:58 mqm
drwxr-xr-x 35 root root 4096 Nov 20 19:42 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 8570 root root 0 Nov 23 13:53 proc
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Nov 23 13:53 sys
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 6100 Nov 23 13:57 dev
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 23 13:57 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 7 04:23 bin
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Dec 7 04:23 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Dec 7 04:23 sbin
drwxr-x--- 3 root root 4096 Dec 10 04:15 root
drwxr-xr-x 61 root root 12288 Dec 11 04:02 etc
drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 4096 Dec 11 12:24 tmp
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