Expalin soft link and hard link

Answer Posted / vijayakanth.g

Hard link
Two files denoting the same inode number is called hard
link

Syntax to create hard link

#ln file1 file2

Here file2 is the copy of file1 if delete fiel1 the
contents in the file1 is still present in file2

Soft links

Two files denoting different inode number which has link
with in them then its said to be soft link or symbolic links

Syntax is

#ln -s file1 file2

Here fiel2 has the contents of file1 if file1 is get
deleted then the data will be lost

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