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0 pointscallalex2y ago0 comments

I haven’t used windows in a while but I thought it supported some form of cross-volume symlink? Or at least mounting an image stored on another volume to an arbitrary path.

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RajT882y ago

Links in windows are a thing, but not well known. I must have been using Windows for close to 20 years before I realized they were in there.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/hard-...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat...

bandrami2y ago

So not-well-known that several tools that really should know better don't check for junctions with occasionally disastrous results in a fs walk. (Using junctions sounded really clever to me until this had me up all night figuring out why the backup system crashed.)

jimmaswell2y ago

mklink /d on windows has saved me many times.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse