Win32: Mount folder into another folder

peterchen

mountvol seems to allow only mounting a drive into a directory. Is it possible to mount a directory as another directory? I have to folders d:\sourcesA and d:\sourcesB, and want to mount them alternatively as d:\sources any ideas?

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Ed Poore

Use symbolic links under linux :~ ;P I've searched for something like this and I don't think it's very easy to accomplish. Ah if only something worked under Windows like they do on Linux... :sigh:

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Peter Somos

use the linkd tool from W2K resource kit edit: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/205524[^]

Bruce Duncan

Junction[^] from System Internals can do this.

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Daniel Grunwald

If you're using Vista, use the "mklink" command line tool to create symbolic links (a new NTFS feature in Vista). On XP, use a tool that can create junctions. But remember that the XP's explorer and junctions are a dangerous combination: when deleting a junction, explorer deletes all files in the directory the junction points to! Some differences between symbolic links and junctions: Junctions point to a target directory using partition number+reference to directory index; symbolic links point to a target directory using a normal path. Only symbolic links can point to UNC paths. Junctions are can only point to directories; symbolic links are supported both for directories and files. And don't confuse symbolic links or junctions with hard links (which are for files only and are supported on XP).

Rama Krishna Vavilala

You can use the shell extension by Michael Dunn, that creates hardlinks: http://www.codeproject.com/shell/shellextguide4.asp[^]

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Lost User

Not quite what you want but you could use the command line subst to map a directory onto an available drive letter, I've used this quite a bit. Elaine :rose:

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Daniel Turini

Trollslayer wrote:

Not quite what you want but you could use the command line subst to map a directory onto an available drive letter, I've used this quite a bit.

Just remember that subst are per-user, while junction points are per-system. This can make all the difference if you want that an IIS application see your subst drive :)

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