Files on a hard drive aren't directly files. Folders are metadata things which contain pointers to things like the previous directory and files within it (along with names) AND other metadata like owner, group, and permissions. Files have a similar bit of metadata which contains permissions and a block manifedt (where the data is stored) and critically: how many things point to it.

This count is needed because of hard links. A hard link is two folders pointing to one of these file metadata blocks as different files. The count is used to ensure that a file that is still in use isn't deleted. This also means a hardlinked file must share at least some permissions. Most systems are also set up to only cache one copy of the file in RAM if such a situation were to come up.

So what I assume time shift does (can't use it because it has an aneurism when it sees a RAID drive for some fucking reason) is store independent "copies" of files per each backup, where only changed files are stored and the rest are hard linked. There is still storage used for the new folders but its on the scale of hundreds of kilobytes. The software can sagely purge one of the backups safely without affecting another, including the first backup.

A soft link is just a file that contains a file path. Like a shortcut.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_last_days_of_american_crime

Seems like it'd be a kind of okay option if you were really stoned and actually spent the whole movie on your phone.

Yeah its a predator thing not a pedo/ebo/ebiphelia thing

Aren't the vast majority of child sex abusers not pedophiles (or variant)? Isn't it more of a vulnerability thing?

Its all just hard links I see no reason why you can't.

There's a movie called "The Last Day of American Crime" which has this premise. It has a 0% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

What's that

That's the kind of shit Donald Trump would say.

Edit: in case there's any confusion I mean the string literal in the comment above.

Haven't heard of it

What happened to Edmund Fitzgerald?

Why is South Africa part of Europe? Because it's wealthier and Europe was the easiest option?

Edit: and Africa is on the same region as Russia and India? I think I should stop trying to rationalize this.

Musicians can play at different volumes, and there's usually a mic and soundboard.