This tutorial is all about how to create and manage Soft links and Hard links to files in your linux system.Names for files are stored on disk in directories.Only the names of Files are stored in directory;the actual disk space is somewhere else.So it clearly means that the names and the actual storage for the things being named are in separate places.The name of a file is kept in a directory separate from the storage space i mean hard disk For the things it names due to which multiple names and names in multiple directories; all the names refer to the same storage space.The actual data stored in a file or directory in linux machine disk is managed by data structers "Inodes".
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