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A '''Hard link''' is a '''reference''' to the physical data on a file system.<br>It does this by creating a file that shares the '''same i-node number''' with the <u>original</u> file.
'''Advantages''' of hard links are that if one hard link remains (even if original file has been removed), the '''data in that hard linked file is NOT lost''', as well as hard linked files will automatically be updated to that of the original file since they share the same '''i-node number'''.
