How can I find where a link leads to

[dan at rna.UUCP]

> ls -i filename
> gives you the inode number; otherwise the question has no meaning.
> All links have the same status; there is no place in the
> hierarchical file system where the file "really" is.

But it is often helpful to find out what are the other pathnames of the
file/inode in question. This is possible with ncheck:

	ncheck -i #### /dev/xxx

where ### is the inode number of the file you want to find all the pathnames
to and /dev/xxx is the special device name of the filesystem on which the
file/inode resides. However, on some systems ncheck and/or /dev/xxx is
protected and non-root people can't perform the above...

					Dan