Hard link associates two (or more) filenames with an INODE.
| Soft link is a special file type which points to ANOTHER file and the contents of this special file is the name of the file that it points to.
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Hard links all share the same disk DATA blocks while functioning as independent directory entries.
| Soft links are CREATED by the - ln -s command.
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Hard links may not span disk partitions since inode numbers are only unique within a given device.
| Once a file which is pointed to by a symbolic link is deleted, the link still points to it, leaving a hanging link
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Command to create a hard link to ‘knowledgehut’ is:
$ ln knowledgehut hlink
| Command to create a symbolic link to ‘knowledgehut’ :
$ ln -s knowledgehut slink
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