Alright, I know there's a few Microsoft folks around here. I wanna know what the difference is between a symlink and a junction on NTFS is, and why one would use one over the other.
To me the both appear to be essentially the same thing, except that symlinks are a good deal more flexible than junction points are. I'm currently using a few symlinks (mklink /d) on my machine to manage a few "larger" entities that I don't want clogging up my boot SSD, and everything seems to work okay. I'm just wondering why they added the junction capability (mklink /j) if symlinks work just fine.
To me the both appear to be essentially the same thing, except that symlinks are a good deal more flexible than junction points are. I'm currently using a few symlinks (mklink /d) on my machine to manage a few "larger" entities that I don't want clogging up my boot SSD, and everything seems to work okay. I'm just wondering why they added the junction capability (mklink /j) if symlinks work just fine.
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