With Linux, we can link files to other files, which gives us quite a bit of flexibility with how we can manage our data. Symbolic and hard links are very similar, but to explain them, you'll first need to understand the concept of inodes.
An inode is a data object that contains metadata regarding files within your filesystem. Although a full walkthrough of the concept of inodes are beyond the scope of this book, think of an inode as a type of database object, containing metadata for the actual items you're storing on your disk. Information stored in inodes are details such as the owner of the file, permissions, last modified date, and type (whether it is a directory or a file). But as a refresher, an inode is ...
