Find hard links?

D. D. Brierton darren at dzr-web.com
Wed Feb 2 14:05:08 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 13:53 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:

> The linking together of these files probably happened on your original 
> drive when you had problems with it. Your backups then backed up the 
> corrupted data.

Yes, that is what I was thinking too.

> It's possible that there are other corruptions in your 
> data (e.g. corrupted files) as well as the files being linked together 
> like this. Do you still have the backups of your data from before you 
> had problems with the original drive?

Yes, thankfully, so there is no real problem, in that I can selectively
replace corrupted files as and when I find them. So there's no panic.

Thanks for your help.

Best, Darren

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