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Old 03-09-2011
hard link concept
I created a file named as file and a its hard link named as hlink.
Problem is that when I delete the file , it gets deleted without notifying that hardlink exists.

But as far as I think we cannot delete the file unless we delete all the hard links pointing to it.

Is there anything worng in my concept Smilie
Code:
adroit:/home/seo/hitendra 25 ] cat > file
Test File
adroit:/home/seo/hitendra 26 ] ln file hlink
adroit:/home/seo/hitendra 27 ] cat hlink
Test File
adroit:/home/seo/hitendra 28 ] rm file
file: ? (y/n) y
adroit:/home/seo/hitendra 29 ]

Please help.
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Old 03-09-2011
It is not that you cannot delete the file. You just did. "file" is deleted. But it's content is still available under "hlink".
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