On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:33 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > D. D. Brierton wrote: > > I know that you can use find like so: > > > > find -type l > > > > to find symbolic links, but does anyone know how one finds hard links? > > Try: > > $ find /some/directory -links +1 -type f -ls > > The files with the same numbers in the left hand column are hard linked > to each other. I think that that was what I needed. It tells me that two wholly unimportant files are hard linked to each other. I don't think they were before I had the problems with the previous hard drive. Should I be concerned that there might be problems as yet undetected? I have fscked the partitions on my new drive, and no problems were reported. Thanks for the help. Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================