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What is the difference between a soft link and a hard link?

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What is the difference between a soft link and a hard link?

Re: What is the difference between a soft link and a hard link?

Submitted by pramodh on Wed, 2007-05-09 14:15.

A symbolic (soft) linked file and the targeted file can be located on the same or different file system while for a hard link they must be located on the same file system.