Soft connections and hard connections under Linux

1. Create: LN [-s] source target, with-S is a soft connection, otherwise a hard connection;

2. The soft connection has the independent Inode index, the hard connection and the source file share inode index;

3. The hard connection can only point to the file, cannot point to the directory, and the soft connection can point to;

4. When a file has only a soft connection, deleting the soft connection has no effect on the source file, but the soft connection is not available when the source file is deleted. When a file has only a hard connection, the source file or connection file is deleted separately, and the file is not accessible to the other party, and only if all files are deleted.

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Soft connections and hard connections under Linux