Timeline for Why are hard links only valid within the same filesystem?
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| Apr 29, 2018 at 18:57 | comment | added | Facundo Victor | @JosefKlimuk, a soft link would point to a path, let's say /mnt/myfile. If you mount another file system into /mnt/. The soft link would be resolved to an entry of the mounted file system under /mnt/. Thus, if you mounted the file system from your USB device on /mnt, the soft link would resolve to an entry on that file system. | |
| Apr 29, 2018 at 10:11 | comment | added | Josef Klimuk | What will happen if another file system (let's say USB) will have a file with the same NAME, to which our symbolic link is connected on our file system? | |
| Jun 18, 2016 at 6:09 | history | answered | Facundo Victor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |