Answer Posted / gowri
A symbolic link is a file that points to another file. Like
directories, which
contain only directory information, symbolic links contain
only one type of data.
A symbolic link contains the path name of the file to which
it points.Because symbolic links use path names to point to
other files, they can point to files in other file systems
The size of a symbolic link always matches the number of
characters in the path name it contains.
The ln command with the –s option creates a symbolic link.
# ln -s file1 link1
Symbolic links refer to other file names.
A symbolic link contains the path name
of the file to which it points.
A hard link is the association between a file name and an
inode. A hard link is not a separate type of file. Every
type of file uses at least one hard link
# ln file1 file2
Deleting one of the files has no effect on the other file.
The link count decrements accordingly.
The following example shows how deleting file1 from the
previous
example has no effect on file2.
# rm file1
# ls -li
total 0
1282 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 23 13:19 file2
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