the difference between a soft link and a hard link?
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Soft Link: When we create a soft link, the link is created and stored in same address where the file is stored. The disadvantage of this type of link is if we delete the file the link becomes broken link and our data is lost.
Ex: ln -s data.text slink.text
If we delete data.text, slink.text link becomes broken link and our data lost.
Hard Link: When we create a hard link, the link is created and
stored in different address. But if we delete the file , the file is deleted and the link remain active so we won't loss the data.
Ex: ln data.text hlink.text
If we delete the file data.text, our data would be accessible through the hlink.text.
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