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What are the pitfalls of hardlinked files on my desktop PC?

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Mar 15, 20261178 views
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All the identical-content files on my PC are now hardlinked. (My data is completely de-duplicated. It is a consequence of the way I copied my data from my old computer.) What pitfalls do I need to be aware of now that certain actions on one file could silently affect a number of other files? I know…

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sed -i 's/\(.\)/\1/' file1

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A pitfall is the overwriting of the files. Some applications try to remove the file and write a new one at the original name. In this case, the file names will be decoupled. Other applications try to directly open the file for writing. In this case,…

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