Was wondering what the current state of the Linux NTFS 'driver' is and can I trust it to work with NTFS "Hard Links." Scenario: I've got 1.5 TB drive I used to use to backup my WHS shares with. What I ...

For most Unix users, symbolic links are obvious and natural — a means to make connections that span file systems and avoid the need to keep duplicates of files in multiple file system locations.

Symbolic links (also called a soft link) are a very important tool to understand in Linux. These are special files that point to other files, similar to shortcuts in Windows or aliases in macOS.

A symlink or "symbolic link" is a Linux file that simply points at another file. If the referenced file is removed, the symlink will remain but not indicate there's a problem until you try to use it.