Hard Link
How to find hard links or files that point to a specific file
Learn how to find hardlinks on a file system or which files they have in common. We will use the find command to get this information quickly available.
Summary
If you want to know which hard links are present, the find utility can give you the answer. In this article we have a look at a few ways to discover more information about hard links. Good to know: a hard link shares the same inode, where a symbolic link has its own inode and just points from one to another. Show all hard links within a specific file system or directory When we have a directory with hard links, we can discover by looking at the link count of each file.