NTFS Junction Points, Mount Points and Symbolic Links

jellybeard999 · 24 Apr 2014 at 18:57

I've looked into this several times and I'm still none the wiser

I quite like the idea of Stablebit Drivepool, but I don't really need the duplication bit (I can do that manually) and just want the one big shared drive part. I looked into Storagespaces, but the parity option seems flaky and the span option is a bit risky. I wouldn't cry at losing 1 drive, but don't want to lose them all!

I have eg

D:\Movies
E:\Movies
F:\TV
G:\TV
H:\Music

All I want to do is share a "virtual drive" (I) or similar with both Movies folders, both TV and Music in, so I can just navigate to

\\Server\I\Movies and see the contents of both D and E

I've read about NTFS Junction Points, Mount Points and Symbolic Links and it seems to do what i'm after, but I can't figure it out. I've tried a couple of GUI tools, none of which have done anything

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=25454674&postcount=6 seems to corroborate, so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction

Thanks

bignev72 · 25 Apr 2014 at 11:10

I'm not sure how to achieve what you want but junction points and symbolic links aren't the way to achieve it.

These are basically hard coded shortcuts so for instance browsing to C:\folder1 actually takes you to the contents of d:\folder2 without the user realising they are being directed to a different location.

Caged · 25 Apr 2014 at 11:14

Taking your example of a file share being \\Server\I\Movies and displaying the contents of both D:\Movies and E:\Movies - what happens when you try to write a file? What volume does it get written to?

Now, you can have a Movies1 and a Movies2 folder inside your share pointing at the different volumes, but that doesn't gain you anything over just having two shares.

Rensin · 25 Apr 2014 at 12:47

if all you are wanting to do is navigate to the folder than have you tried creating a new library called "Movies" and adding the drive location of Movies 1 & 2.
When you click "Movies" it will show the contents of both your movies drives.

This works perfect for me and have the shortcut pinned to the w8 metro screen for quick access.

As for writing a file it will get saved to the default save drive you set in properties.