Interesting... I see similar strangeness: <bel-kwinith:~/Desktop$> ls -li /usr/bin/which /bin/which 659285 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 24336 May 2 2014 /usr/bin/which 659285 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 24336 May 2 2014 /bin/which Both are the same inode, so the link count *should* be 2. The same is true of "bash": <bel-kwinith:/tmp$> ls -li /bin/bash /usr/bin/bash 658498 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 960608 Sep 5 2017 /bin/bash 658498 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 960608 Sep 5 2017 /usr/bin/bash But if I make links to a file, the link count is right: <bel-kwinith:/tmp$> ls -li hello 2756645 -rw-rw-r--. 1 mengel mengel 1 Oct 8 10:35 hello <bel-kwinith:/tmp$> ln hello goodbye <bel-kwinith:/tmp$> ls -li hello goodbye 2756645 -rw-rw-r--. 2 mengel mengel 1 Oct 8 10:35 goodbye 2756645 -rw-rw-r--. 2 mengel mengel 1 Oct 8 10:35 hello <bel-kwinith:/tmp$> ln hello aloha <bel-kwinith:/tmp$> ls -li hello goodbye aloha 2756645 -rw-rw-r--. 3 mengel mengel 1 Oct 8 10:35 aloha 2756645 -rw-rw-r--. 3 mengel mengel 1 Oct 8 10:35 goodbye 2756645 -rw-rw-r--. 3 mengel mengel 1 Oct 8 10:35 hello I'm almost tempted to remove one of them to see what happens to the other :-). On 10/08/2018 10:12 AM, aleksander.baranowski wrote: Hi, Sorry for spamming mailing lists once more, but I'm probably missing something. So we have this package on called which-2.20-7.el7.x86_64. The `rpm -ql which | grep bin` returns: /usr/bin/which In the same time, there is `/bin/which` file that according to the package is not provided with `which`. then `rpm -qf /usr/bin/which /bin/which` returns which-2.20-7.el7.x86_64 which-2.20-7.el7.x86_64 Tells us that the package provides this files. Then `stat /usr/bin/which /bin/which | grep -o 'Inode: [[:digit:]]*'` return the same Inode for both files. But ll /usr/bin/which /bin/which returns number of links that is equal 1. So it's not hardlinked. I'm baffled. Any explanation is welcome. Bests, Alex -- Marc W. Mengel Software Services Senior Developer Data Management and Applications Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 630 840 8256 office www.fnal.gov<http://www.fnal.gov> Connect with us! Newsletter<http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today> | Facebook<%0Ahttps://www.facebook.com/Fermilab> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/FermilabToday>