2025-11-14 17:16 UTC
@mp3tag@mastodon.social
Thanks - makes sense!
In this particular case, volume M is a small partition of my huge storage disk, where some junctions point to the actual directories on the second volume N of said disk. This not-so-common scheme comes from a consolidation of my cold storage onto a single disk where I needed to retain old volume names for compatibility with some software, installed eons ago.
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@DanielaKEngert@hachyderm.io 2025-11-14 19:10
@mp3tag@mastodon.social In other words, this is the strategy we apply in our company applications: To determine the space on the *real* volume that is storing a file, given by a *user-facing* path - possibly starting on a different volume - we follow all symlinks, hardlinks, junctions (i.e. all reparse points) to discover the volume at the other end of the chain as specified by the given file path.