What is the purpose of ln command? What is the difference between a softlink and a hardlink?
Will softlinks/hardlinks help if the original files are deleted?
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What is the purpose of ln command? What is the difference between a softlink and a hardlink?
Will softlinks/hardlinks help if the original files are deleted?
ln is a command to generate links. Links are like file alias.
A soft link is when you have a path to the file, so the file might exist or not, and can link files even if they are in different partitions.
Hard links are links to nodes that point to the same contents, so if you delete the original file the content will still exist.