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[–] hperrin 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

On Linux file systems it basically is. A file name is just a label for an inode, and the same inode can have as many file names as you want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Still this requires different directories for the hardlinks to be in the filesystem, and there's not an easy way given a file to list all "labels" that file has, without checking other directories for files with the same inode.

[–] hperrin 1 points 8 months ago

find has a way to search by inode.