On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:07:39PM +0530, deepak.barua@wipro.com wrote: > $ touch h > $ ln h j > $ ln -s h k > $ ls -i h j k > 176016 h 176016 j 176016 k > $ Perhaps there is an 'ls' alias that is adding the '-L' option to dereference symlinks. Perhaps try: $ /bin/ls -i h j k or $ stat h j k David Brown _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/