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VVS
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‎01-09-2008 01:49 AM

‎01-09-2008 01:49 AM

Soft link & hard link

Why soft link exist across file system and not the hard link?
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Jeeshan
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‎01-09-2008 02:01 AM

‎01-09-2008 02:01 AM

Re: Soft link & hard link

soft link belongs to file and hard link belongs to directory.
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Shrikant Lavhate
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‎01-09-2008 02:03 AM

‎01-09-2008 02:03 AM

Re: Soft link & hard link

Soft link is points to two different inodes on disk thats why it can cross FS. for hard link
the data will be stored only once on the harddrive, but there are two inodes pointing to it.
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Ivan Krastev
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‎01-09-2008 02:19 AM

‎01-09-2008 02:19 AM

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Re: Soft link & hard link

See also http://linuxgazette.net/105/pitcher.html

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ivan
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VVS
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‎03-20-2008 03:01 AM

‎03-20-2008 03:01 AM

Re: Soft link & hard link

I got the sufficient knowledge of the topic
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