JunctionsPoints/HardLinks

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Arthur Dent

Hello all,

I am looking for a good utility for creating junctionpoints/hardlinks to a
directory.
The problem ive seen in the past with the one or two ive used, is that for
each "copy" of the directory, windows thinks that the disk space is used
again. So if I have 2 pointers to a directory of 10MB, Windows reports that
there are 20MB used.

I don't know if that is a bug with the way those utils were written, or just
a flaw in how Windows handles this concept.

Any info, help, appreciated.
TIA -
Arthur Dent.
 
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Hello all,

I am looking for a good utility for creating junctionpoints/hardlinks to a
directory.
The problem ive seen in the past with the one or two ive used, is that for
each "copy" of the directory, windows thinks that the disk space is used
again. So if I have 2 pointers to a directory of 10MB, Windows reports
that there are 20MB used.

I don't know if that is a bug with the way those utils were written, or
just a flaw in how Windows handles this concept.

Any info, help, appreciated.
TIA -
Arthur Dent.

I use ntfslink, which I've not seen any bugs like that with
http://www.elsdoerfer.info/ntfslink/
 
ntfs.sys does not allow to create hardlinks to directory.
If you know internals of ntfs and create hardlink(s) to directory
manually the behaviour of ntfs.sys depends of windows version.
(I tested Win2K and WinXP)

What is the problem to write a simple program that uses API function
CreateHardLink?
 
The NTFSLink program works splendidly, and does not have the size-reporting
issue that I saw with the other one.

Thanks!
 

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