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		pjmlp on Aug 20, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System Worse, if you ask around most people are unsure what happens to the original file when you delete an hard link.

contras1970 on Aug 20, 2017 [–]

there is no "original file": hard links are just synonymous names for a single blob. rm / unlink essentially just reduce a reference counter and the storage gets freed when the counter drops to zero.

pjmlp on Aug 20, 2017 | [–]

I know that, most users don't.

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