NET 4000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.10.3: Working Directory, Hard Link, Symbolic Link

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Links are files that point to another file. Linux uses two types of links that you need to be familiar with: A hard link is a duplicate entry in the file system that points to a specific piece of data on the disk drive. The inode specifies where a file"s data physically exists on a disk. With a hard link, the link file and the original file both share the same inode. The data stored in the link file is exactly the same as the data in the original file. The data is preserved within the link file even if the original file is deleted. A hyphen (-) is used as the first character in the permission string, which is the same character used for normal files (e. g. , A symbolic link (also known as a soft link) is a file that points to another file in the file system. A symbolic link is similar to shortcuts in the windows os.

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