NTFS volume mount points are specialized
NTFS filesystem objects which are used to
mount and provide an entry point to other
volumes
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.
Description
NTFS volume mount points are
NTFS filesystem objects—implemented as
NTFS reparse points—which are used to
mount and provide an entry point to other
volumes
Volume is a measure of regions in three-dimensional space. It is often quantified numerically using SI derived units (such as the cubic metre and litre) or by various imperial or US customary units (such as the gallon, quart, cubic inch). The ...
. Volume mount points are supported by NTFS 3.0, which was introduced with
Windows 2000
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.
Use
Mount points can be created in a
directory on an NTFS
file system, which gives a reference to the
root directory
In a Computing, computer file system, and primarily used in the Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the root directory is the first or top-most Directory (computing), directory in a hierarchy. It can be likened to the trunk of a Tree (data st ...
of the mounted volume. Any empty directory can be converted to a mount point. The mounted volume is not limited to the NTFS filesystem but can be formatted with any file system supported by
Microsoft Windows
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. However, though these are similar to POSIX
mount points found in Unix and Unix-like systems, they only support local filesystems; on
Windows Vista
Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years earlier, which was then the longest time span between successive releases of Microsoft W ...
and later versions of Windows,
NTFS symbolic links can be used to link local directories to remote
SMB network paths.
See also
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NTFS symbolic link
*
NTFS junction point
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NTFS reparse point
*
Symbolic link
In computing, a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a file whose purpose is to point to a file or directory (called the "target") by specifying a path thereto.
Symbolic links are supported by POSIX and by most Unix-like operating syste ...
External links
Volume Mount PointsCreating Volume Mount Points
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Windows disk file systems