Explained Hard Link and Soft Link | Tech Arkit

Hard Link	Soft Link
Hard linked file is assigned the same Inode value as the original.	Soft Linked file is assigned different inode values.
You can’t find difference between linked file and original file	You can find the different between original and linked file
We can’t create hard link for directories	We can create Soft link for directories
We can’t create hard links in different file systems (Example. Ext4 to XFS or Ext3 to Ext4).	We can create soft links between across the file systems
Deleting original file will not effect linked file	Deleting Original file will make soft linked file inaccessible