Links are more useful in Linux system and the same is Created at different purpose. Symbolic links are created with 'ln -s' option and hard link without 's' option. In case of hard link the Inode Number is same and we can create as many aliases to the same location and the other important point here is the content will get destroyed only if we remove the entire alias.
The Inode number for all the files linked through hard link will be same and in case of symbolic link the file is just linked to the source location. This is equivalent to the creation of short cuts created for windows software's.
