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Answer by LawrenceC for When should I use hard links as opposed to soft links?

It's possible to have dangling softlinks, since a softlink is a pointer to a file.It's not possible to have dangling hardlinks. Each file has at least one hardlink, i.e. directory entry in the...

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When should I use hard links as opposed to soft links?

I'm about to start toying around with mklink but I'm still trying to get a real grip on this whole "symlink" thing. In particular, I've noticed there's two types of links - "soft links" and "hard...

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