Questions tagged [hardlink]

Connecting a specific name to real data stored in a file. Hard-linking enables the file to be accessed by multiple names or handles. This feature is found in POSIX-compliant systems such as GNU/Linux, Android, Apple Mac OS X, and even Windows with some restrictions. It offers a slightly different way of aliasing compared to soft-linking (also known as symbolic linking), with each method having its own advantages and disadvantages.