linux-soft connections, hard links

In Linux, everything is file. Each file has an inode number that matches it, and each inode can match multiple files.

and links have soft links, hard links of the points. A soft link is like a shortcut to Windows, and a hard link is like an alias (two files are identical, even the inode number is the same).

Soft links

1. Create a soft connection

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2. link files using ln-s source files

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3. View source files and soft connection files (source files are the same as soft connection content)

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5. View the inode number of two files (two inode numbers are different)

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6. Delete the source file to see if the soft connect file is still present (the soft link file still exists but is not accessible)

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Hard Links

1. Creating source files and hard-linked files

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2. View Append source file contents and see if Hard links are synchronized (both sides will synchronize the data)

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3. View Inode number

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4. Delete the source file to see if the hard-link file still has normal access (hard-link file or normal access)

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Also note that hard links cannot be created across partitions (because each partition has a separate inode number, each partition cannot be confused)

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linux-soft connections, hard links