Linking Files

Question 1

Hard Link

Answer 1

• Associate two or more file names with the same inode.
• Hard links share the same data blocks on the hard disk, while they continue to behave as independent files.

Question 2

Soft Link

Answer 2

• a small file that is a pointer to another file.
• A symbolic link contains the path to the target file instead of a physical location on the hard disk.

Question 3

inode

Answer 3

• Each file has an inode containing metadata about the file.

Question 4

Hard and Soft link mechanism

Answer 4