(Answer) (Category) SCO UnixWare 7/OpenUNIX 8/OpenServer 6 FAQ : (Category) General Information :
What's a hard link?
A hard link is an additional name for a file. When a user creates a hard link, an inode number / name pair is entered into the target directory, and that inode is the same number as the original inode.

Thus both names have the same inode number.

Hard links can not cross filesystem boundaries (filesystems have different inode tables). Hard links can't link directories.

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