What is the difference between a hard link and a symbolic link?

In linux, the use of a shell in order to make some actions with some files, like open, remove, paste, create, and a lot of other functions. One of those are interesting and it is the possibility to make links between the files.

For create a soft link you need the command ln and the parameter -s that referers to the soft link. This soft link is like an arrow that pointing to one target, and this target is the file that I want to link

By the other hard, a hard link is the way to create a mirror file to the original file. If you affect the original file in any way, the mirror will be affected in the same way to.