Hard links and soft links in Linux explained

Sep 22, 2020, 14:00 (0 Talkback[s])
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The concept of a hard link is the most basic we will discuss today. Every file on the Linux filesystem starts with a single hard link. The link is between the filename and the actual data stored on the filesystem. Creating an additional hard link to a file means a few different things. Let's discuss these.