I like to explain links this way.

If you make a hard link to a file, lets call it link-h and then you remove
the original file, link-h still points to the original data, so your file is
intact.

If you make a symbolic link to a file, and call it link-s, when you remove
the original file, link-s now points to nothing, your data is gone. If you
now create a new file with the original name, then link-s now points to the
new data.

 

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Subject: Re: Hard Link Question

Not so much an error, as its just not made to work that way.
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