Dealing with directories
Directories allow you to create a structure and store your files in a way that is easy for you to organize and search for them. In reality, directories are entries on a filesystem that contain lists of other files and directories. This happens with the help of inodes, which are data structures that hold information about files and directories.
As you can see in the following figure, directories are implemented as lists of names assigned to inodes. As a result, a directory contains an entry for itself, its parent directory, and each of its children, which among other things can be regular files or other directories:
Note
What you should remember is that an inode holds metadata about a file, not the actual data of a file.
A graphical representation of inodes
About symbolic links
Symbolic links are pointers to files or directories, which are resolved at the time of access. Symbolic links, which are also called soft links, are not equal to the file or the directory they are...
