Tuesday, April 27, 2010

DOS: Creation of HardLink in Windows

Problem Statement:
Creation of hardink in Windows

Solution:

This could be achieved by running the following on DOS prompt:
fsutil hardlink create c:\hlink.txt c:\log.log

Output of this command is:
Hardlink created for c:\hlink.txt <<===>> c:\log.log

Thus hlink.txt file is now a hardlink file for log.log.
Any changes made in log.log would reflect in hlink.txt file and vice-versa.
Also if any one file is deleted the other can be used as all contents would still be present in the other file.

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