[[!comment format=mdwn username="https://me.yahoo.com/a/x4ddlZwKw9O9IsCHmNZz7tSJn2h0H3vX#23f03" nickname="Karl" avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/7bc6190890ad7485f9913c49aa13165cecf2d98a54bc7934749771a1b91290f6" subject="additional information" date="2017-12-08T10:17:40Z" content=""" in the same git repository, some files will not be hardlinked even if unlocked individually, e.g. ll -i bucket/dev/nkt-16-358-01/data/nkt-16-358-01_flow_annotation.csv 33292708 lrwxrwxrwx 1 karl qbstaff 208 Nov 29 14:19 bucket/dev/nkt-16-358-01/data/nkt-16-358-01_flow_annotation.csv -> ../../../../.git/annex/objects/74/mK/SHA256E-s798268--3ae6c93d5b03cae3b7fb3d9920a4728e3ba572419f8918a938ef50efccdcfc1b.csv/SHA256E- s798268--3ae6c93d5b03cae3b7fb3d9920a4728e3ba572419f8918a938ef50efccdcfc1b.csv* ll -i .git/annex/objects/74/mK/SHA256E-s798268--3ae6c93d5b03cae3b7fb3d9920a4728e3ba572419f8918a938ef50efccdcfc1b.csv/SHA256E-s798268--3ae6c93d5b03cae3b7fb3d9920a4728e3ba572419f8918a938ef50efccdcfc1b.csv 33161645 -rwxrw---- 1 karl qbstaff 798268 Nov 29 14:19 .git/annex/objects/74/mK/SHA256E-s798268--3ae6c93d5b03cae3b7fb3d9920a4728e3ba572419f8918a938ef50efccdcfc1b.csv/SHA256E-s798268--3ae6c93d5b03cae3b7fb3d9920a4728e3ba572419f8918a938ef50efccdcfc1b.csv* # so the inode of the object is 33161645 # unlock it git annex unlock bucket/dev/nkt-16-358-01/data/nkt-16-358-01_flow_annotation.csv # check the inum of the unlocked file # ll -i bucket/dev/nkt-16-358-01/data/nkt-16-358-01_flow_annotation.csv 33292719 -rwxrwx--x 1 karl qbstaff 798268 Nov 29 14:19 bucket/dev/nkt-16-358-01/data/nkt-16-358-01_flow_annotation.csv # inodes do not match """]]