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Which of the following is true when hard-linked files are present?

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Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

Question

Which of the following is true when hard-linked files are present?

Options

  • AThe output of stat will report "hard" instead of "regular file"
  • BThe hard-linked files may not be empty
  • CBoth files will share the same inode
  • DIssuing a longdirectory listing with ls -1 will indicate the link with "->"
  • EThe file permissions will be prefixed by an "h", eg. hrwxr-x-r-x

How the community answered

(52 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • C
    94% (49)
  • E
    4% (2)

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Topics

#hard links#inode#filesystem internals#file references

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