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Hard or symbolic link quesion.
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| Mark Healey 2004-11-23, 2:45 am |
| I'm planning on moving all my mp3s to my linux machine. One thing I'd
like to do to save space is to replace the files in "greatest hits"
and anthology type directories (my directory structure is
artist/album/song) with links.
Shold I use symbolic or hard links and why?
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Mark Healey
marknews(at)healeyonline(dot)com
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| Ivan Marsh 2004-11-23, 5:45 pm |
| On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:58:35 +0000, Mark Healey wrote:
> I'm planning on moving all my mp3s to my linux machine. One thing I'd
> like to do to save space is to replace the files in "greatest hits" and
> anthology type directories (my directory structure is artist/album/song)
> with links.
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> Shold I use symbolic or hard links and why?
That's up to you. Why don't you read about the differences and decide
which you would prefer.
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the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
i.m.
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| Mark Healey 2004-11-24, 5:45 pm |
| On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:46:23 UTC, "Ivan Marsh" <annoyed@you.now>
wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:58:35 +0000, Mark Healey wrote:
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> That's up to you. Why don't you read about the differences and decide
> which you would prefer.
I did and what I read didn't really answer my question. I'm wondering
about what happens when I archive stuff.
Say I have music/Stranglers/The Raven/Bear Cage.mp3 and
music/Stranglers/Raraties/Bear Cage.mp3 as a hard link to
music/Stranglers/The Raven/Bear Cage.mp3. When I try to put all of
music into a tar file, won't I wind up with two copies of the same
file in the archive. And when I restore it won't I wind up with two
copies in the music directory that comes from extracting the archive.
If I use symbolic links won't I have to recreate them manually when I
extract the archive?
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Mark Healey
marknews(at)healeyonline(dot)com
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