Is it true that a symbolic link is a link to a hard link?

Question

linux

Hello.
Are the following two statements true? When creating a file, is memory allocated in the file system and a hard link to the memory address is created? So by creating a symbolic link - are we creating a link to a hard link?
Thank you!

Answer 1

No and no.
Create a file "a.txt" and write hello worl there.
Create a hardlink and a symlink to this file.
Then we arrange a circus with tricks:
1. Rename "a.txt" to anything and check.
The hardlink still points to the file, and tells us "hello world" The
symlink swears.
2. Create a new "a.txt" and write "all your base are belong to us" in it.
The hardlink keeps telling us "hello world"
while the symlink says "all your base are belong to us".
Then we remember that there are a little more than one file system in the world. Ouch.
There are even pictures here askubuntu.com/questions/108771/what-is-the-differe...