diff --git a/env/env_posix.cc b/env/env_posix.cc
index b29a64752..cc377f161 100644
--- a/env/env_posix.cc
+++ b/env/env_posix.cc
@@ -613,6 +613,15 @@ class PosixEnv : public Env {
     return result;
   }
 
+  Status NumFileLinks(const std::string& fname, uint64_t* count) override {
+    struct stat s;
+    if (stat(fname.c_str(), &s) != 0) {
+      return IOError("while stat a file for num file links", fname, errno);
+    }
+    *count = static_cast<uint64_t>(s.st_nlink);
+    return Status::OK();
+  }
+
   virtual Status AreFilesSame(const std::string& first,
                               const std::string& second, bool* res) override {
     struct stat statbuf[2];
diff --git a/include/rocksdb/env.h b/include/rocksdb/env.h
index 79ff3f38b..c6ca725c5 100644
--- a/include/rocksdb/env.h
+++ b/include/rocksdb/env.h
@@ -289,6 +289,12 @@ class Env {
     return Status::NotSupported("LinkFile is not supported for this Env");
   }
 
+  virtual Status NumFileLinks(const std::string& /*fname*/,
+                              uint64_t* /*count*/) {
+    return Status::NotSupported(
+        "Getting number of file links is not supported for this Env");
+  }
+
   virtual Status AreFilesSame(const std::string& /*first*/,
                               const std::string& /*second*/, bool* /*res*/) {
     return Status::NotSupported("AreFilesSame is not supported for this Env");
@@ -1064,6 +1070,10 @@ class EnvWrapper : public Env {
     return target_->LinkFile(s, t);
   }
 
+  Status NumFileLinks(const std::string& fname, uint64_t* count) override {
+    return target_->NumFileLinks(fname, count);
+  }
+
   Status AreFilesSame(const std::string& first, const std::string& second,
                       bool* res) override {
     return target_->AreFilesSame(first, second, res);
diff --git a/include/rocksdb/sst_file_manager.h b/include/rocksdb/sst_file_manager.h
index 439537e2a..2d3c3be66 100644
--- a/include/rocksdb/sst_file_manager.h
+++ b/include/rocksdb/sst_file_manager.h
@@ -96,14 +96,18 @@ class SstFileManager {
 // @param max_trash_db_ratio: If the trash size constitutes for more than this
 //    fraction of the total DB size we will start deleting new files passed to
 //    DeleteScheduler immediately
-// @param bytes_max_delete_chunk: if a single file is larger than delete chunk,
-//    ftruncate the file by this size each time, rather than dropping the whole
-//    file. 0 means to always delete the whole file. NOTE this options may not
-//    work well with checkpoints, which relies on file system hard links.
+// @param bytes_max_delete_chunk: if a file to delete is larger than delete
+//    chunk, ftruncate the file by this size each time, rather than dropping the
+//    whole file. 0 means to always delete the whole file. If the file has more
+//    than one linked names, the file will be deleted as a whole. Either way,
+//    `rate_bytes_per_sec` will be appreciated. NOTE that with this option,
+//    files already renamed as a trash may be partial, so users should not
+//    directly recover them without checking.
 extern SstFileManager* NewSstFileManager(
     Env* env, std::shared_ptr<Logger> info_log = nullptr,
     std::string trash_dir = "", int64_t rate_bytes_per_sec = 0,
     bool delete_existing_trash = true, Status* status = nullptr,
-    double max_trash_db_ratio = 0.25, uint64_t bytes_max_delete_chunk = 0);
+    double max_trash_db_ratio = 0.25,
+    uint64_t bytes_max_delete_chunk = 64 * 1024 * 1024);
 
 }  // namespace rocksdb
diff --git a/java/rocksjni/sst_file_manager.cc b/java/rocksjni/sst_file_manager.cc
index 440411c39..c83ea00ef 100644
--- a/java/rocksjni/sst_file_manager.cc
+++ b/java/rocksjni/sst_file_manager.cc
@@ -138,8 +138,7 @@ jobject Java_org_rocksdb_SstFileManager_getTrackedFiles(JNIEnv* env,
 
   const rocksdb::HashMapJni::FnMapKV<const std::string, const uint64_t>
       fn_map_kv =
-          [env](
-              const std::pair<const std::string, const uint64_t>& pair) {
+          [env](const std::pair<const std::string, const uint64_t>& pair) {
             const jstring jtracked_file_path =
                 env->NewStringUTF(pair.first.c_str());
             if (jtracked_file_path == nullptr) {
diff --git a/util/delete_scheduler.cc b/util/delete_scheduler.cc
index 8ef66fdfa..1d51055a3 100644
--- a/util/delete_scheduler.cc
+++ b/util/delete_scheduler.cc
@@ -267,24 +267,46 @@ Status DeleteScheduler::DeleteTrashFile(const std::string& path_in_trash,
   if (s.ok()) {
     bool need_full_delete = true;
     if (bytes_max_delete_chunk_ != 0 && file_size > bytes_max_delete_chunk_) {
-      unique_ptr<WritableFile> wf;
-      Status my_status =
-          env_->ReopenWritableFile(path_in_trash, &wf, EnvOptions());
+      uint64_t num_hard_links = 2;
+      // We don't have to worry aobut data race between linking a new
+      // file after the number of file link check and ftruncte because
+      // the file is now in trash and no hardlink is supposed to create
+      // to trash files by RocksDB.
+      Status my_status = env_->NumFileLinks(path_in_trash, &num_hard_links);
       if (my_status.ok()) {
-        my_status = wf->Truncate(file_size - bytes_max_delete_chunk_);
-        if (my_status.ok()) {
-          TEST_SYNC_POINT("DeleteScheduler::DeleteTrashFile:Fsync");
-          my_status = wf->Fsync();
+        if (num_hard_links == 1) {
+          unique_ptr<WritableFile> wf;
+          my_status =
+              env_->ReopenWritableFile(path_in_trash, &wf, EnvOptions());
+          if (my_status.ok()) {
+            my_status = wf->Truncate(file_size - bytes_max_delete_chunk_);
+            if (my_status.ok()) {
+              TEST_SYNC_POINT("DeleteScheduler::DeleteTrashFile:Fsync");
+              my_status = wf->Fsync();
+            }
+          }
+          if (my_status.ok()) {
+            *deleted_bytes = bytes_max_delete_chunk_;
+            need_full_delete = false;
+            *is_complete = false;
+          } else {
+            ROCKS_LOG_WARN(info_log_,
+                           "Failed to partially delete %s from trash -- %s",
+                           path_in_trash.c_str(), my_status.ToString().c_str());
+          }
+        } else {
+          ROCKS_LOG_INFO(info_log_,
+                         "Cannot delete %s slowly through ftruncate from trash "
+                         "as it has other links",
+                         path_in_trash.c_str());
         }
-      }
-      if (my_status.ok()) {
-        *deleted_bytes = bytes_max_delete_chunk_;
-        need_full_delete = false;
-        *is_complete = false;
-      } else {
-        ROCKS_LOG_WARN(info_log_,
-                       "Failed to partially delete %s from trash -- %s",
-                       path_in_trash.c_str(), my_status.ToString().c_str());
+      } else if (!num_link_error_printed_) {
+        ROCKS_LOG_INFO(
+            info_log_,
+            "Cannot delete files slowly through ftruncate from trash "
+            "as Env::NumFileLinks() returns error: %s",
+            my_status.ToString().c_str());
+        num_link_error_printed_ = true;
       }
     }
 
diff --git a/util/delete_scheduler.h b/util/delete_scheduler.h
index 0d94ca72d..cbd13ecef 100644
--- a/util/delete_scheduler.h
+++ b/util/delete_scheduler.h
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ class DeleteScheduler {
   uint64_t bytes_max_delete_chunk_;
   // Errors that happened in BackgroundEmptyTrash (file_path => error)
   std::map<std::string, Status> bg_errors_;
+
+  bool num_link_error_printed_ = false;
   // Set to true in ~DeleteScheduler() to force BackgroundEmptyTrash to stop
   bool closing_;
   // Condition variable signaled in these conditions
diff --git a/util/delete_scheduler_test.cc b/util/delete_scheduler_test.cc
index e7fd8d49f..78d5313f8 100644
--- a/util/delete_scheduler_test.cc
+++ b/util/delete_scheduler_test.cc
@@ -478,6 +478,40 @@ TEST_F(DeleteSchedulerTest, DeletePartialFile) {
   rocksdb::SyncPoint::GetInstance()->EnableProcessing();
 }
 
+#ifdef OS_LINUX
+TEST_F(DeleteSchedulerTest, NoPartialDeleteWithLink) {
+  int bg_delete_file = 0;
+  int bg_fsync = 0;
+  rocksdb::SyncPoint::GetInstance()->SetCallBack(
+      "DeleteScheduler::DeleteTrashFile:DeleteFile",
+      [&](void*) { bg_delete_file++; });
+  rocksdb::SyncPoint::GetInstance()->SetCallBack(
+      "DeleteScheduler::DeleteTrashFile:Fsync", [&](void*) { bg_fsync++; });
+  rocksdb::SyncPoint::GetInstance()->EnableProcessing();
+
+  rate_bytes_per_sec_ = 1024 * 1024;  // 1 MB / sec
+  NewDeleteScheduler();
+
+  std::string file1 = NewDummyFile("data_1", 500 * 1024);
+  std::string file2 = NewDummyFile("data_2", 100 * 1024);
+
+  ASSERT_OK(env_->LinkFile(file1, dummy_files_dirs_[0] + "/data_1b"));
+  ASSERT_OK(env_->LinkFile(file2, dummy_files_dirs_[0] + "/data_2b"));
+
+  // Should delete in 4 batch if there is no hardlink
+  ASSERT_OK(delete_scheduler_->DeleteFile(file1, ""));
+  ASSERT_OK(delete_scheduler_->DeleteFile(file2, ""));
+
+  delete_scheduler_->WaitForEmptyTrash();
+
+  auto bg_errors = delete_scheduler_->GetBackgroundErrors();
+  ASSERT_EQ(bg_errors.size(), 0);
+  ASSERT_EQ(2, bg_delete_file);
+  ASSERT_EQ(0, bg_fsync);
+  rocksdb::SyncPoint::GetInstance()->EnableProcessing();
+}
+#endif
+
 // 1- Create a DeleteScheduler with very slow rate limit (1 Byte / sec)
 // 2- Delete 100 files using DeleteScheduler
 // 3- Delete the DeleteScheduler (call the destructor while queue is not empty)