Linux Administration/Devices and Filesystems/Links

This lesson covers links.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the links portion of Linux+ certification include:

• Create and change hard and symbolic links
  • Create links
  • Identify hard and/or soft links
  • Copying versus linking files
  • Use links to support system administration tasks
  • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
    • ln
    • ls

Readings

1. Wikipedia: Hard link
2. Wikipedia: Symbolic link

Activities

1. Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Create and change hard and symbolic links

References

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