[Ardour-Users] interchange/audiofiles

[Jörn Nettingsmeier]

Sciss wrote:
> ezra:~ rutz$ ls -la
> /Users/rutz/Desktop/HMSS/Kirche09/Ardour/TestTest/interchange/TestTest/audiofiles/
> 
> total 4739176
> drwxr-xr-x   7 rutz  rutz         238 May 14 23:31 .
> drwxr-xr-x   4 rutz  rutz         136 May 14 23:27 ..
> -rw-r--r--   2 rutz  rutz  1143092790 Apr 18 22:30 2009418session2_0.aif
> -rw-r--r--   2 rutz  rutz   224993334 Apr 18 22:34 2009418session2_1.aif
> -rw-r--r--   6 rutz  rutz   352788066 May 14 19:07 HMSS_SchH_Ludger.aif
> -rw-r--r--   5 rutz  rutz   352788066 May 14 19:20 HMSS_SchH_MKov.aif
> -rw-r--r--   5 rutz  rutz   352788066 May 14 19:16 HMSS_SchH_Sciss.aif
> 
> what does that mean? in fact i have the feeling now with the global
> option unchecked it really doesn't eat my HD space....

you can use ls -i to find out the inode number on both the original and
the included file. if they are identical, it's a hard link that exists
only in one place physically. if you, you can delete either one without
losing the data. only after the last hardlink has been deleted does the
data get destroyed. (which is why the syscall to nuke files is called
"unlink".)

du -sch will also do the right thing about hard links, iff all the link
entries are within the path that you are looking at.



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