What is the difference between a symbolic link and a hard link? Recently I was asked this during a job interview I was honest and said I knew how a symbolic link behaves and how to create one, but do not understand the use of a hard link and how it differs fro
hardlink - Hard link and Symbolic links in Unix - Stack Overflow I just wanted to clarify if a hard symbolic link is actually a file that is created ?? I ran the command: ln source hardlink ln -s source softlink -- The ls command shows this 2 links as a file
hardlink - NFS + Hard Links? - Stack Overflow I know it is a condition of hard links that they cannot span filesystems Does this apply to NFS mounts? Given the following directory structure, would I be able to create a hard link in director
linux - What is the difference between a soft (symbolic) link and a . . . The summary is that a symbolic short link acts as a shortcut to the first file's location, whereas a hardlink is a shortcut to the file on the disk If you delete the target of a soft link then the soft link will cease to work, but if you delete one copy of a hard link, the file will remain on the disk until all hard links to it are removed
How do I view a files hard links in Windows? - Server Fault I've found a description of hard links and junctions in Windows, however I'd like to know ,from the Windows UI or command prompt, how I can view the hard links of a particular file or folder?
Newest hardlink Questions - Stack Overflow 1answer 90views Finding files that are Hardlink in Soalris under specific folder I need to find hardlink files under specific folder in Solaris Tried this below command which lists the files based on inode count The above command list both source and linux solaris