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'''Hard Links:'''
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Hard link is a reference to the physical data on a file system
More than one hard link can be associated with the same physical data
'''Symbolic Links:'''
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A Symbolic Link is an indirect pointer to a file – a pointer to the hard link to the file
You can create a symbolic link to a directory
