Questions tagged [ntfs-junction]
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Empty Partition Reported as Full
I have a Windows 10 desktop with a 1 TB drive that I use for my OS partition plus one other 500 MB partition (mounted as E:) that almost exclusively has junction links to folders on my other drives (...
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Can't install software when c:\Windows\Installer is Junctioned
When I move all files from c:\Windows\Installer to E:\SymLinked\Installer and then do a mklink /J c:\Windows\Installer E:\SymLinked\Installer, reboot, and then try installing software I get errors ...
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Getting and understanding a listing of NTFS links
I've been learning about NTFS links (1, 2) and playing around with them on my computer. It's a strange world of pseudonyms for filenames and folder names, and I'm not clear yet on why I have them, but ...
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Windows: Get absolute path of junctioned folder
System: Windows 10x64pro
I have a folder junctioned into another. However, once inside the junctioned folder, I need to be able to get its actual absolute path. How is this done?
Come to think of it,...
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Removing user profile junction point
Initial state:
My user account profile (on my Windows 10 system)
was on C:\Users\<my account>.
Due to partition size limitations,
I created a folder on E:\Users\<my account>
and created a ...
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Can I move all files of a user to a USB drive in Windows 10?
How?
Would junction points be a good technique?
The purpose is to free space for upgrade, so obviously the setup would have to survive the upgrade
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Difference between Volume IDs and Volume Serial Numbers? And can Volume IDs be addressed?
The Volume Serial Number (VSN) looks like this: 1A79-B12A
And can be found using the 'dir' or 'vol' command in Windows without any switches.
Volume GUID looks like this: 4523b23c-5fca-22c5-7ac2-...
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Create junction from subdirectory or root?
If a user wanted to create a junction from, say, C:\Users\username\Pictures\MyTrip to E:\MyTrip, is there any practical difference between creating the junction from the root of C:\ or from the path: "...
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How to copy a folder maintaining symbolic links and junctions relative to the copy root?
This might be a bit of an edge case, but I would dearly like to know if there is a simple way to achieve this.
Suppose I have the following set up (where the latter two are symbolic links to the ...
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Create a symbolic link on a networked drive
I'm trying to create a symbolic link on a networked drive that's mounted at login when my PC connects to a VPN.
I'm getting the following error:
I've come across this thread but it wasn't of much ...
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Restore program files on Symbolic Linked OS with Junction?
Is there a way to restore Windows Registry, Paths and confguration if I have a NTFS-Junction link to Program Files, Program Files (x86), ProgramData and Users?
I'm wondering if I can fully restore my ...
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How to have only Windows folder on 20GB SSD?
I know it's super easy to install Linux on multiple drives, but on Windows, I've never seen it before. I want to boot from a 20GB SSD and have everything else on the 1TB HDD. It would look like that : ...
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How does one list all of the junciton points (mount points) on a Windows NTFS file system? [duplicate]
I know how to create these now, but I don't know how to run something similar to mount in bash to list them all.
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Are there any reasons you don't see people mounting external file shares to a folder in Windows?
It's clearly possible mount an external file share to a folder as you would in Linux using sshfs, in Windows, but I haven't really seen anyone do this. The only potential downsides to this I can ...
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Maintain duplicate files with same/ different names on a Windows NTFS drive? Use junctions, symbolic or hard links?
Maintain duplicate files with same/ different names on a Windows NTFS drive? Use junctions, symbolic or hard links?
I've read junctions, symbolic links and hard links, but its unclear how the ...
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