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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers questions with links Post 28889 by yls177 on Wednesday 25th of September 2002 11:58:42 PM
Old 09-26-2002
questions with links

hard links
1) why isnt it possible to link across file system boundaries

2) when we removed one link , how will the other link be affected?


symbolic links
1) why is it possible to create symbolic links but not hard links across file system boundaries?

thanks
yls177
 

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