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diff between soft link and hardlink
Name: beboldpls Date: May 26, 2004 at 03:15:17 Pacific OS: solaris8 CPU/Ram: 256mb
Comment:
hi guys,
i wd like to know the differences between softlink and hard link.
A hard link cannot span file systems. A soft link can point to files anywhere on the network. All hard links share the same inode number. Each soft link has a unique inode number. If you delete the source hard link file you can still access the other one. However, with a soft link, if you delete the source link, you cannot access the other one. With a soft link, you can create a symbolic link to a file that does not exist yet. You cannot create a hard link unless the source file already exists.
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Name: beboldpls Date: May 28, 2004 at 04:05:09 Pacific
Summary: samba on the sun box will make solaris drives you specify in your samba setup visible to your winbox as if it was an ms network. www.samba.org what we(16 year old son, really) was share /export/home a...
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