Delete fileA and check whether softlinkA and hardlinkA are still accessible. (Explain the difference in behavior)

Step 1: Delete fileA

bashCopyEditrm fileA

Step 2: Check Accessibility of softlinkA and hardlinkA

bashCopyEditls -l softlinkA hardlinkA

Expected Behavior:

1. Soft Link (softlinkA) Behavior

• softlinkA will break and become a dangling (invalid) link because it only points to fileA, which is now deleted.

• Running ls -l softlinkA will show:

    sqlCopyEditlrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 6 Mar 29 12:34 softlinkA -> fileA
  

  But trying to access it (cat softlinkA) will give an error:

    yamlCopyEditcat: softlinkA: No such file or directory
  

2. Hard Link (hardlinkA) Behavior

• hardlinkA will still work normally because a hard link is another reference to the same inode (data) of fileA.

• The file contents remain intact even after deleting fileA.

• You can still view the content using:

    bashCopyEditcat hardlinkA
  

  Output:

    nginxCopyEditHello Linux
  

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