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Answer: What is the difference between NTFS hard links and directory junctions? #dev #programming #solution

What is the difference between NTFS hard links and directory junctions?

The title says it all… what’s the difference? When do I use one and when do I use the other?

Added: Note that Junction points, Hard links and Symbolic (soft) links are three separate things on NTFS.

Answer [by Josip Medved]: What is the difference between NTFS hard links and directory junctions?

Hard link is just another…

How to: Using mklink /h results in "Access is denied." #development #it #computers

Using mklink /h results in "Access is denied."

From command prompt with Administrator privilages:

c:\>mklink /h c:\dirA c:\Users\Piotr\dirB Access is denied.

I’m on Vista x64. Using /j or /d instead of /h works. What’s the problem?

Related:

Access is denied error, when I mklink on Windows 7.

Answer [by David d C e Freitas]: Using mklink /h results in "Access is denied."

I had the same issue:…

Resolved: Make a hard link without extra programs in Windows 7 #programming #development #dev

Make a hard link without extra programs in Windows 7

My objective here is to synchronize my emule credit file (application.dat?) by Dropbox. But the credit file is not inside the Dropbox directory (by default). So I want to make a hard link to get this objective done.

I know I can make a hard link by Perl in Windows. (I learnt Perl in Windows XP. Only hard link is valid in Windows XP.) But it…

Fixed: Some GUI for mklink? #solution #it #development

Some GUI for mklink?

Do you know some GUI tool to create Hardlinks/SoftLinks/Junctions?

Answer [by Leon Sodhi]: Some GUI for mklink?

Have a look at Junction link magic

Answer [by Adam Gibbins]: Some GUI for mklink?

NTFS Link provides an explorer extension for creating hard links.

Answer [by Allon Guralnek]: Some GUI for mklink?

Have a look at symlinker.

I haven’t found a shell extension to…

Fixed: How do I view a file's hard links in Windows? #solution #programming #answer

How do I view a file’s hard links in Windows?

I’ve found a description of hard links and junctions in Windows, however I’d like to know ,from the Windows UI or command prompt, how I can view the hard links of a particular file or folder?

Answer [by drcursor]: How do I view a file’s hard links in Windows?

ln list

should work.

There’s also a shell extension 1

Answer [by Massimo]: How do I view a…

Resolved: How can I use rsync to duplicate a directory tree, creating hardlinks to files? #dev #solution #development

How can I use rsync to duplicate a directory tree, creating hardlinks to files?

From time to time, I have to perform several large migration changes on data files on my server, and I’m looking for a good way to do this. I was thinking about using rsync to duplicate my directory structure starting at the root data folder, creating hard links to all original the files (some of them are rather big),…

Solution: How do I view a file's hard links in Windows? #computers #answer #fix

How do I view a file’s hard links in Windows?

I’ve found a description of hard links and junctions in Windows, however I’d like to know ,from the Windows UI or command prompt, how I can view the hard links of a particular file or folder?

Answer [by drcursor]: How do I view a file’s hard links in Windows?

ln list

should work.

There’s also a shell extension 1

Answer [by Massimo]: How do I view a…

Solution: How can you see the actual hard link by ls? #fix #answer #development

How can you see the actual hard link by ls?

I run

ln /a/A /b/B

I would like to see at the folder a where the file A points to by ls.

Answer [by Laurence Gonsalves]: How can you see the actual hard link by ls?

There isn’t really a well-defined answer to your question. Unlike symlinks, hardlinks are indistinguishable from the original file. Filenames in directories are just references to an inode…