What is the difference between a hard link and a symbolic link?

-What is a Soft link?: a sof link also known as symbolic link works as a pointer, basically points/links to the file path or direction.

-What is a Hard link?: a hard link is connected with the file throught the inode which stores essential information about the file itself such as it’s location, creation date, permissions and other attributes.

-How to create them:

Create a Hard link:

ln?File Hardlinktofile        

Create a Soft link:

Symbolic links are also created with the command?ln, but for the link to be soft we need to specify the parameter?-s, to create a symbolic link to the file Filesoft called Softlinktofile run:

ln?-s?Filesoft Softlinktofile        

?-What is the difference between them?

• A hard link always points a filename to data on a storage device.
• Whereas a soft link always points a filename to another filename, which then points to information on a storage device.
• If you delete the file which soft link is linking, then it has no value, as it would be pointing to a non-existent file however the hard link, as it works as a mirror copy of the file, would still work even thought the original file has been deleted.

I hope you found this article useful to understand the differences between hard links and symbolic links and how to create them.Thanks for reading!