Expalin soft link and hard link

Answer Posted / vishwanath

Softlink : A file that points to another file it could be
another file, directory, device file, or a symobolic
link ...inode number of soucefile & link would be different
from eah other...softlink can link between differenet file
system.

command to create the softlink ...
ln -s sourcefile link

Hardlink : A hardlink share same inode number. Hard link
point to only file not directory... it cannot span
different file system ....hard link can only link the file
on same file system...

syntax.
ln sourcefile link...

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