Questions tagged [junction]
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Some GUI for mklink?
Do you know some GUI tool to create Hardlinks/SoftLinks/Junctions?
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What are possible drawbacks of an IIS 7 site having an NTFS junction as a web root?
I am trying to come up with a way to deploy ASP.NET code with as little site disturbance as possible. One thought was to set up the site to be served from an NTFS junction c:\www\example.com where
c:\www\example.com ->…
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WinXP - Map network location to local folder
I have a network location, \\myserver\myshare. On my Windows XP box, I wish to map this location to the path c:\somefolder. Am I asking the impossible?
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Calculate folder size without counting links
I need to calculate the size of "real" files created under a folder (and its sub-folders) on an NTFS drive, where "real" is all files that are not present because of hard/soft-links, junctions etc.
Is there currently any tool that will do this?…
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Performance issues with cross-drive NTFS junctions
I have the following setup:
Windows 8.1 32-bit
Drive 0: system drive, SSD, NTFS, mounted at C:\
Drive 1: data drive, magnetic HDD, NTFS, mounted at C:\Users\Database User\Documents and Z:\ additionally
In a sub-sub-directory of C:\Users\Database…
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IIS server: directory not writable via symbolic link compared to directory junction (for only the first user)
We have the following setup for a webserver: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, IIS 7.5.7600.16385, PHP 5.3.28, the HMVC framework we use is Kohana.
Kohana needs a cache directory to be writable in D:\inetpub\www\application\cache (D:\inetpub\www\ is…
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How can I use junctions instead of drive letters to organize DFS replication of multiple shares on multiple disks?
I am configuring a new DFS setup that will utilize Namespaces and Replication. The two member servers are virtual machines running Windows Server 2012 R2.
Since many of the shares range from hundreds of gigabytes to several terabytes, I want to…
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Which settings apply to a folder connected via junction?
Which folder permission and folder sharing settings apply to a a folder "connected" within another folder via junction, or symlink?
Lets assume we have two folders residing in drive D:. D:\Main D:\Other. I create a junction in D:\Main\jOther which…
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Is there a way to create a 'trackable' link (~hard link) to a folder on Windows (Windows XP in particular)?
Lets suppose that there are:
a folder and
a junction point or a symlink to that folder
When the original folder is moved to a new location, both the junction point and the symlink fail (point to an orphaned location). The failure of the link is…
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Why are there so many applications designed to only run on the C drive?
It seems like with Windows 7 onward, many common applications will only install to a directory of their choice:
Office 2013
Visual Studio
Chrome
SQL Server
This ranges from being slightly annoying to very inconvenient if you have a small OS…
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Windows Installer Service Issue
I'm trying to clear up some space on C:\ drive by copying contents of C:\Windows\Installer folder to another NTFS Partition and create a junction point(Symbolic link) from C:\Windows\Installer to D:\Installer. BTW, I'm running Windows Server 2003…
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Windows DEL command behavior wrt junction points
In my installer script I want to delete known files from known locations on the local PC using the DEL command. The command should purge the file from a certain folder and all subfolders below that. I therefore use:
cd /d "C:\MyFolder"
del /f /s…
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