Cowling A.E. wrote:
> A hard link is a 'copy' of the file that is linked to the original - they are
> mirrors of each other , modify one one and the other gets updated too. Try it
> in your home dir, create a file, create a link and modify one or the other -
> both copies get updated.
This is incorrect.
> A symbolic link merely points to the original - it is not a copy of the file.
Nor is a hard link.
> Hard links cannot link across filesystems, symbolic links can.
Correct.
> Symbolic links don't take up as much disk space.
Incorrect. Symbolic links take up more disk space than hard links.
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