Top "Hardlink" questions

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

Recently I was asked this during a job interview. I was honest and said I knew how a symbolic link …

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Nginx sites-enabled, sites-available: Cannot create soft-link between config files in Ubuntu 12.04

I am trying to create soft links between config files containing server blocks in the sites-enabled and sites-available directories in /…

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Creating directory hard links in Mac OS X

How can I create a hard link to a directory in Mac OS X? This feature has been added to …

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Git and hard links

Considering that Git does not recognize symbolic links that point outside of the repository, is there any problem using hard …

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Filesystem links on a FAT32 formatted storage

I know FAT32, as well as FAT16/12 neither support symbolic links nor hard-links. However I came up with this idea: …

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Find out whether a file is a symbolic link in PowerShell

I am having a PowerShell script which is walking a directory tree, and sometimes I have auxiliary files hardlinked there …

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How to find all files which are basically soft or hard links of other directories or files on linux?

How could I get the list of all linked files on my system or from a certain directory. I used …

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NFS + Hard Links?

I know it is a condition of hard links that they cannot span filesystems. Does this apply to NFS mounts? …

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How to create a hardlink in C#?

How to create a hardlink in C#? Any code snippet, please?

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How do I create file hardlink in PowerShell on Windows 10?

How do I create file hardlink in PowerShell on Windows 10? PSCX has New-Hardlink, but is it still needed on Windows 10? …

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