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Questions tagged [ntfs-junction]

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How to view all the Symbolic links, junction points, hard links in a Folder using dir?

The command dir /a displays a list of all the files and folders in a given location. But it displays the type for Junction Points as well as Symbolic Links to Folders. Is there any command which will differentiate and tell me which of…
Dhiwakar Ravikumar
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NTFS Junction Point from HDD to SSD, will it cause performance bottleneck? (steam game relocation)

Can an NTFS Junction Point between HDDs cause a bottleneck? Or will the junction be cached in memory? Specifically, I want to install Steam on a magnetic HDD. This means all the games will be installed there. To benefit from my SSD, I will…
ddtemplar
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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 first): D:\Work\CommonStuff D:\Work\Project1\Stuff ->…
Josh Comley
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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 : C:\ Windows D:\ Program Files Program Files…
Nato Boram
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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 what is certain is that I have lots of them.…
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How does one list all of the junciton points (mount points) on a Windows NTFS file system?

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.
leeand00
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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-22c5-7ac2-874d7c7e6789 And can be found using the 'mountvol'…
Haneef Ibn Ahmad
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fix multiple broken junctions

i have a bunch of broken junction because of drive letter changes. is there a possibility to mass-fix the drive letter? Since all the junctions are relative to a common directory root, they also could been completely drive letter independent. Is…
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Windows 8.1 System Image- 0x80070001 (Invalid Function)

I am running Windows 8.1 on an Alienware M14x R2 which is about one year old and has a 500GB HDD. I recently received a 1TB Transcend External HDD which I intended to use for backing up my PC. With applications like RecImg Manager not working for me…
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NTFS junctions fail after SysPrep

I have a system with numerous partitions across several physical disks. After a Windows SysPrep the drive letters are re-assigned (this is expected), so I have a script that re-letters them back to the way they were. Everything is fine except that…
ash
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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 (these junctions do exist in directories created…
David
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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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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 relationships work when the duplicate files are same/…
Alex S
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Using junction.exe for Windows 8 only creates a directory to copy to and is not protecting the targetted directory

I am using junction.exe for Windows 8 with commands like these D:\Downloads\Junction\junction.exe D:\Temp\Sandbox\ C:\Sandbox\ D:\Downloads\Junction\junction.exe D:\Temp\AppData C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\ D:\Downloads\Junction\junction.exe…
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Junction aware undeleter?

I created a junction with the Sysinteral's Junction tool, and in a moment of stupidity, didn't see how to remove the junction from the below output of junction.exe /? (Though hopefully some will agree that it doesn't follow most other cmd.exe…
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