link/symbolic link~ What is the differance?

[Michael Havens]

If this is the case, what is the bebefit of a sym link?=20
If it's size how much bigger is a hard one?
(I am so BAD!)

On Wednesday 18 December 2002 11:36 am, David Mandala wrote:
> Easiest way to explain the difference is: Hard links must exist on the
> same file system (ie: partition) and soft links (symlinks) can exist
> across partition boundaries. There are other differences but that is th=
e
> biggest that you might care about.
>
> As explained below a hard link is a pointer to data that is already on
> the drive. The name can be the same or different. With a hard link if
> the original link is deleted the data remains accessible via the other
> hard links. With a soft link if the original link is deleted the data i=
s
> gone and you have what is known as a hanging sym link, that is a soft
> link that is now pointing at nothing. There are tools to scan your
> drives to locate and delete hanging links. You would be surprised how
> many hanging soft links can accumulate over time!
>
> There are more differences but I'll leave that to you to discover.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Davidm
>
> On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 11:36, Mike Starke wrote:
> > /_> From what I've interpreted from a combination of the info/man pag=
es
> > on ln, it /_> seems that without  the -s it is just another command f=
or
> > 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
> > /_
> > I must admit, I too, never fully understood the differance between
> > soft & hard links.
> >
> > -Mike
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