Hm... I cannot reproduce that behaviour. Symbolic links are just that. They don't hold any data.
This might be related to permissions. This might seem a bit obvious but are you absolutely sure the original file got deleted with the rm command?
Yes, but on the other hand "hard links" work the way you described.
Last edited by vharishankar; 11-05-2011 at 10:05 PM.
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