You create symbolic links in your home directory to a set of files in their $/$data directory using the ln $-$s command. Later, a system administrator deletes the files in the $/$data directory.

What happens to the symbolic links that you created?

answer

The files would not be deleted because duplicate files were created when you created the links.

The symbolic links still exist in your home directory, but they are useless because the link has been broken.

You can still access the files until the system is rebooted, even though they are deleted because the links point to a cached copy of the files in memory.

The links in your home directory are automatically removed when the administrator deletes the files.