Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
>
> >How do hard links and sym links differ?
>
> >Chris
>
> A hard link is just a copy of the file. A softlink is a real link
This is not correct. A hard link is *not* a copy of the file, it
is a copy of the file header linking to the rest of the file in its
original location on the disk.
If you take a file of size n and make a hard link to it, the
disk use of the two will be n, not 2n.
The disk use of the original file and a symlink will be
n + <length of path to file>
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