On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Howard White <hwh...@vcch.com> wrote: > > Jonathan Sheehan wrote: >> Howard, >> For a parallel situation in linux, I fixed it by moving most of the >> user's files to the second partition and symlinking to it from his >> homedir. It was transparent to the user, made use of the big empty >> partition, and was dead simple. It seems like you ought to be able to >> do something similar in Windows, maybe? >> -J'n > > Cool idea J'n! Major gotcha here. Client system is XP Home, and quite > old. But I give you this URL. > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link> > > Key element: mklink [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] link target > > The text does mention NTFS Junction Point "(available since Windows > 2000)" Too much to ask for in XP Home?? Gotta XP Home system, sorry > Marq (my son), gonna test out on your system. :)
Regardless, I don't think you're going to be making a symbolic link on a FAT filesystem, only NTFS. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney, Sr. mdcha...@michaelchaney.com http://www.michaelchaney.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
