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Name: beboldpls
Date: May 26, 2004 at 03:15:17 Pacific
Subject: diff between soft link and hardlink
OS: solaris8
CPU/Ram: 256mb

Comment:

hi guys,
i wd like to know the differences between softlink and hard link.
pls give some differences..
thnx in advance
regards
kishore

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Response Number 1

Name: nrc
Date: May 26, 2004 at 04:51:12 Pacific
Subject: diff between soft link and hardlink

Reply: (edit)

A hard link cannot span file systems.
A soft link can point to files anywhere on the network.
All hard links share the same inode number.
Each soft link has a unique inode number.
If you delete the source hard link file you can still access the other one. However, with a soft link, if you delete the source link, you cannot access the other one.
With a soft link, you can create a symbolic link to a file that does not exist yet. You cannot create a hard link unless the source file already exists.

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Response Number 2

Name: beboldpls
Date: May 28, 2004 at 04:05:09 Pacific
Subject: diff between soft link and hardlink

Reply: (edit)

thank you very much Mr.nrc fro ur reply
have a good day bye

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