Hard Links and Symbolic Links

easy 10 XP ~4 minHands-on lab

The deploy tool expects a stable name for the newest release, plus an extra copy that survives if someone deletes the original file.

The directory /srv/lab/releases contains vault.bin.

Task

Create these two links inside /srv/lab/releases:

  1. current — a symbolic link pointing to vault.bin
  2. vault.backup — a hard link to vault.bin

Do not copy the file.

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