How can I find where a link leads to

[Rob Warnock]

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| > ls -i filename
| > gives you the inode number...
| 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
|                  ...However, on some systems ncheck and/or /dev/xxx is
| protected and non-root people can't perform the above...
| 					Dan
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In that case, try:

	find / -inum #### -exec ls -l {} \;

It will show you files whose i-node numbers are "####" on ALL mounted
structures, and possibly report files which are not linked to yours,
but using the date and length reported by "ls" (or at worst looking at
each file) should disambiguate it for you.


Rob Warnock
Systems Architecture Consultant

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p.s. This articele had the worst case of "time warp" I have seen in a
long time -- 9 days in the future from when "notes" touched it (five
days from my local "now"). News admins take note...

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| Subject: Re: How can I find where a link leads to
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