hello folks
how y'all doin


well i have some questions about symbolic link and hard link

hope some one answer me

i open terminal and join as root
and i wrote ln -s blah blah
then i wrote ls
i see red file called blah blah
but didn't understand what is this can some one explain and is this the way to read it ?

what if remove the orginal file of hard link can i still see the content of the file

and can i try to make a hard link to a directory ? To a non-existent file

another more questions hope not one get angry coze i ask much

what if i try to change the permissions of the original file with chmod, or update its modification time with touch is there is something gunna happen for the links

that's what i wanna to know

thanks for all people who's gonna see the topic and thanks for who's gonna answer my questions

This should fail if blah already exists. If blah is a directory it will create the link in the directory.

if its the last reference to the file then the file will be removed.

no

the links all point to the same file so updating the permissions will appear like all links were changed. you cannot however change the permissions of a symbolic link.

thanks about all of this info