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Create hard and soft links

Create hard and soft links

From the course: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (EX200) Cert Prep: 1 Deploy, Configure, and Manage (2021)

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Create hard and soft links

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- [Instructor] When organizing our workspace, it can be advantageous to create links or shortcuts to our files and directories. For instance, we can have a link in our home directory to called Netdrive, that points to a network drive that's at /media/network/server/bob/files, this saves time browsing to it as it's a shortcut in our home directory. There are two different kinds of links, symbolic links and hard links. We'll start out by creating hard links. In a terminal, let's create a directory for this exercise. Type in mkdir lnexercise, and hit Enter, then cd lnexercise and hit Enter again, you can verify your path by typing in pwd. Now let's create a file in a directory. Type in touch file.txt and hit Enter, and then create a directory by typing mkdir dir1, we can verify this with ls -l, we can see that we have a file named file.txt and a directory named dir1. Now let's create a hard link to file.txt and we'll…

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