I have a shared directory (D:\Media) and am running out of disk space.

I have unused space on another (physcial) drive an would like added this
(E:\Spare) so that any files, including files in subdirectories, would be seen
as part of D:|Media, both locally and as the share.

If I create a junction point linking E:\Spare to D:\Media will windows

1. see the files in both as belonging to D:\Media
2. only see the files in E:\Spare
3. go into a recursive loop

Is there an alternative / better way of doing this?


Martin
Just another confused user

On Mar 30, 10:50 am, Martin Smulian <mar...@msmulian.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
> I have a shared directory (D:\Media) and am running out of disk space.
>
> I have unused space on another (physcial) drive an would like added this
> (E:\Spare) so that any files, including files in subdirectories, would be seen
> as part of D:|Media, both locally and as the share.
>
> If I create a junction point linking E:\Spare to D:\Media will windows
>
> 1. see the files in both as belonging to D:\Media
> 2. only see the files in E:\Spare
> 3. go into a recursive loop
>
> Is there an alternative / better way of doing this?
>
> Martin
> Just another confused user

The better way is to replace the older, smaller D: drive with a newer
larger hard drive. Within this process, you would "clone" the older
D: drive to the newer drive and expand the DL partition.

Or, break the shared drive D: settings, move the folder to the larger
drive and then re-do to shared settings while on the E:

Agreed, new drives are better, but the drive that is running low on space is
250GB and there is a seond 250gb drive already in the machine. I will be adding
space once the new Hitachi 1000 gb drives are available.

In the meantime, does anyone know if using juction points will work?

thank you

martin

"smlunatick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Mar 30, 10:50 am, Martin Smulian <mar...@msmulian.demon.co.uk>
>wrote:
>> I have a shared directory (D:\Media) and am running out of disk space.
>>
>> I have unused space on another (physcial) drive an would like added this
>> (E:\Spare) so that any files, including files in subdirectories, would be seen
>> as part of D:|Media, both locally and as the share.
>>
>> If I create a junction point linking E:\Spare to D:\Media will windows
>>
>> 1. see the files in both as belonging to D:\Media
>> 2. only see the files in E:\Spare
>> 3. go into a recursive loop
>>
>> Is there an alternative / better way of doing this?
>>
>> Martin
>> Just another confused user
>
>The better way is to replace the older, smaller D: drive with a newer
>larger hard drive. Within this process, you would "clone" the older
>D: drive to the newer drive and expand the DL partition.
>
>Or, break the shared drive D: settings, move the folder to the larger
>drive and then re-do to shared settings while on the E:

Martin
Just another confused user

Martin Smulian <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

> Agreed, new drives are better, but the drive that is running low on
> space is 250GB and there is a seond 250gb drive already in the
> machine. I will be adding space once the new Hitachi 1000 gb drives
> are available.
>
> In the meantime, does anyone know if using juction points will work?
>
> thank you
>
> martin
>
> "smlunatick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>On Mar 30, 10:50 am, Martin Smulian <mar...@msmulian.demon.co.uk>
>>wrote:
>>> I have a shared directory (D:\Media) and am running out of disk
>>> space.
>>>
>>> I have unused space on another (physcial) drive an would like added
>>> this (E:\Spare) so that any files, including files in
>>> subdirectories, would be seen as part of D:|Media, both locally and
>>> as the share.
>>>
>>> If I create a junction point linking E:\Spare to D:\Media will
>>> windows
>>>
>>> 1. see the files in both as belonging to D:\Media
>>> 2. only see the files in E:\Spare
>>> 3. go into a recursive loop
>>>
>>> Is there an alternative / better way of doing this?
>>>
>>> Martin
>>> Just another confused user
>>
>>The better way is to replace the older, smaller D: drive with a newer
>>larger hard drive. Within this process, you would "clone" the older
>>D: drive to the newer drive and expand the DL partition.
>>
>>Or, break the shared drive D: settings, move the folder to the larger
>>drive and then re-do to shared settings while on the E:
>
> Martin
> Just another confused user
>

You can normally only create a junction at an empty directory. If it
were possible to do as you suggest and see the files stored in two places
as one directory, when you wrote a new file there, how would it decide
which place to actually write the file?

You could move all of the files out of your existing D:\Media to E:
\Spare, then create a junction at D:\Media that points to E:\Spare.

It may be easier to do this sort of thing with a partition that you map
to D:\Media instead of assigning it a drive letter (do this in Disk
Management).