Monday, 12 December 2011

### Symlinks ###

 1. Provides shortcuts to files (including directories)
 2. Provides hard links to inode (file system) locations
Soft Links:
 1. ln -s source_file target
  a. ln -s ./regextest.pl lastscript.pl
Note: Soft links may span multiple file systems/hard drives
Note: Symlink count is NOT increased when using soft links
 2.  ln -s /home/linuxcbt/testRH5/regextest.pl . - this will symlink (soft) to the /boot file system
Note: With soft links, if you change the name or location of the source file, you will break ALL of the symlinks (soft)

Hard Links:
 Features:
  1. The ability to reference the same inode/hard drive location from multiple places within the same file system
   a. ln source target
      ln regextest.pl ./testhardregextest.pl - creates a hard link

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