Hard link vs. Soft link in Linux

Posted September 21, 2011 in Linux

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Symbolic links (also called symlinks or softlinks) most resemble Windows shortcuts. They contain a pathname to a target file. Hard links are a bit different. They are listings that contain information about the file. Linux files don’t actually live in [...]