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Originally Posted by allomeen
2.Symbolic links in Linux and Unix can cross partition boundaries, but hard links cannot. Can somebody explain this to me?
Thank you
A hard link creates a new filesystem entry pointing to the data of the linked file - thus, it's more like a copy than a link, except that both files share the same data. With a hard link, if you delete the original, the linked file will still exist with all the original data, because it's not a special type of file, it's a filesystem entry pointing to the original data. Does that make sense? That's why you can't make a hard link across filesystems - the data being linked doesn't exist on the other filesystem.