symbolic link Disk Directory entry Name: foo Inode: 123456 Directory entry Name: baz Inode: 123457 hard link Inode Inode: 123457 Permissions File Type Owner Address on disk ln −s foo baz $ ls −il 123457 lrwxrwxrwx 123456 −rw−r−−r−− 2 fred user 3 Mar 20 12:35 baz −> foo etc. hard link Inode Inode: 123456 Permissions File Type Owner Address on disk etc. yada yada superblock foo directory file

2 fred user 10 Mar 20 12:35 foo