| ▲ | noinsight 6 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Windows is not limited to accessing partitions through drive letters either, it's just the existing convention. You can mount partitions under directories just like you can in Linux/Unix. PowerShell has Add-PartitionAccessPath for this: > mkdir C:\Disk > Add-PartitionAccessPath -DiskNumber 1 -PartitionNumber 2 -AccessPath "C:\Disk" > ls C:\Disk It will persist through reboots too. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | jeroenhd 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I've used this a few times to put games on exchangeable media. Installers don't like it if you pick an SD card as an install target, but they don't care if C:\Games\Whatever is actually an NTFS mount point that goes unpopulated as soon as I disconnect the memory card. This trick has the downside of confusing installers that try to check free space, though. For permanently mounted drives, I'd pick symbolic links over mount points because this lets you do file system maintenance and such much easier on a per-drive level. You can still keep everything under C:\ and treat it like a weird / on Unix, but it you need to defragment your backup hard drive you won't need to beat the partition manager into submission to make the defragment button show up for your mounted path. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | magicalhippo 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Don't have to use PowerShell either, it's been available for ages through Disk Management. Right-click on a partition -> Change Drive Letter and Path -> Add -> Mount in following empty NCTS folder. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | zamadatix 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Only for NTFS (both source and dest) though, no exFAT shared drives under a folder mount or what have you. I think the same is actually true of ReFS for some reason. When you create/format the partition in the GUI tools it'll actually ask if you want to assign a drive letter or mount as a path as well. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | EvanAnderson 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NTFS mount points can be very handy for engineering around software that doesn't allow you to customize paths. I can choose VM disks with different performance or replication policies and stitch them together like I would on a *nix OS. It's very handy and only in rare occasions have I had applications "notice" it and balk. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | mschuster91 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
What, excuse me, the fuck? I never knew one could do this. Thanks! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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