Saturday, December 28, 2024

Symbolic Links

 A while back, I mentioned that I was looking for a way to span some of my directories across multiple drives; the 2 TB SSD I installed a year or two ago is filling up fast and the 1  TB SSD that cam with this blindingly fast laptop is no longer getting any use.

I have procrastinated because I was up to my ears in legal history work.  

This morning I could not sleep, so I started playing with mklink.

mklink /d D:\Users\clayt\linksrc C:\Users\clayt\linktarget

Then I created a C:\Users\clayt\linktarget directory. I copied directories into linksrc. They actually copied into linktarget on drive C.

They are logically on drive D, so I can continue to use my drive D references and my automatic backup will imagine they are on drive D.


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