link/symbolic link~ What is the differance?

[Matt Alexander]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Michael Havens wrote:

> From what I've interpreted from a combination of the info/man pages on ln, it
> seems that without  the -s it is just another command for copy.
>
> Is this correct?

With a hard link, you have pointers to the same data saved at some
particular location on the disk.  So it's technically not a copy.
~M

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