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51 lines
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layout: page
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category: Filesystem
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tags: Hard links
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author: Ricardo Vivanco
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title: fs
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previous-page: pages/fs/Hard
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---
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<html>
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<head>
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</head>
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<body>
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<header>
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<h1>Hard and Symbolic links</h1>
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<p>In Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, “everything is a file” and a file
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is fundamentally a link to an inode (a data structure that stores everything about a
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file apart from its name and actual content).
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A hard link is a file that points to the same underlying inode, as another file.
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In case you delete one file, it removes one link to the underlying inode. Whereas a
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symbolic link (also known as soft link) is a link to another filename in the filesystem.
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Another important difference between the two types of links is that hard links can only
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work within the same filesystem while symbolic links can go across different filesystems.
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</p>
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</header>
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</body>
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</html>
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