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Is it possible to delete a hardlink to a locked file?
In short, I need to do what was asked here:
One hardlink is locked. How do I remove the other?
The given solution doesn't work for me as I'm trying to create/delete a hardlink to a file that is in ...
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Find modified files from rsync backup script
I'm using rsync on my Ububtu Linux server to take a time machine like backup of the system. Every hour, a cronjob runs the following script (partial excerpt):
rsync -a --link-dest=/backup/current ...
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hardlinking takes a lot of space
I made an rsync incremental backup script for my server that will copy a MySQL database backup and a specified folder path to a remote server. Here's the code on Github.
Code excerpt from lines ...
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How to transfer a Time Machine to an NTFS partition (or how to copy HFS+ hard links)
Do you know a way to copy HFS+ hard links to a folder on a HFS+ or NTFS drive?
Before you say it can't be done, I don't want actual backing up functionality of Time Machine, just the ability to ...
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How to find hard links on windows
I've created some hard links on my Windows 7 file system using mklink. It was some time ago and I can't remember for sure where, or which files. When I use Explorer, all files look the same. When I ...
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rsync: how to recreate hard-links after removed and recreated a file?
This is what I have:
--dir1
----file1
----file2
Then I created another directory dir2 with hard-links.
--dir2
----file1 (hard link to dir1/file1)
----file2 (hard link to dir1/file2)
Now I ...
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Netbeans destroys hardlinks on save
I am using Netbeans 7.0.1 on a Linux system.
I have a file
module/test.php
and another one
application/module/test.php
Both test.php files are hardlinks of each other.
When I change ...
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How can I create hard links in OSX?
What I want is to have multiple copies of the same file, and whenever I edit one of them, they all get updated. I thought Hard Links would solve my problem. So, I used the command ln as described in ...
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What are the various link types in Windows? How do I create them?
Is it possible to link two files or folders without having a different extension under Windows?
I'm looking for functionality equivalent to the soft and hard links in Unix.
Background:
I have a ...
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How to copy files and create hardlinks instead of copying when files are identical
Are there any tools for Windows that can
copy one dir to another
read copied content
generate MD5
if the current file is identical to a previously copied one, create a hardlink in destination dir ...
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How to create a directory hard link?
I was trying to create a directory hard link (not a symbolic one).
I've tried this: mklink /d /h newfolder currentfolder but it's telling me Access is denied. I don't understand how is access denied ...
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What happens when I backup a symbolic link to a briefcase?
The story: I recently started trying DropBox. After some fiddling, I found I could use an app, DropBoxFolderSync, to sync a folder with DropBox, leaving something called a "Symbolic Link" (which seems ...
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What is “ln -L” (--logical) for?
I can read in the ln man page:
-L, --logical
make hard links to symbolic link references
I read somewhere that ln -L could be used to re-link files that were deleted but which are ...
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Can someone make sense out of “Hard Links and Junctions” article from MSDN?
At Hard Links and Junctions MSDN article one can read the following:
A hard link is the file system representation of a file by which more
than one path references a single file in the same ...
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Should I use Windows' hardlinks for backups?
I'm not exactly backing up but its a similar idea.
I have a few archives on my computer. They have exact copies of certain files (mostly 300k to 1.5MB). It's enough to take up a gigabyte. I am using ...
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How do I get Windows 7 to recognize a Junctioned User folder?
I'd like to junction or hard-link my C:\Users[me]\ folder to a folder on my D: drive for space reasons. This has worked for me in the past, but after a recent reformat/reinstall of Win7 x64, Windows ...
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Why does du -sl show different sizes for the source and result of a cp -rl?
I have used cp -rl to copy a folder. When measuring the size of the source and of the result of the copy du -sl returns slightly different sizes, even though diff confirms that their content are ...
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Windows 7 mklink - hard link's attributes (expected !) + contents do not affect the linked file
Now - this is driving me crazy. I created a hard link pointing to a file in my dropbox dir - the link was created inside a folder where this file needs to be in order to be accessed by the programs I ...
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Command cp raises an error when using -l flag
I'm using cp -al to make some incremental backups in my computer. The -l flag tries to make a hard link instead of a real copy if the files are identical.
However, the following error raises from ...
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Executing symbolic link to exe - “The specified path does not exist”
When trying to execute a symbolic link which points to an exe file (on Windows 7), the "Open with" windows appears. When renaming it to a ".exe" file, it says "The specified path does not exist. Check ...
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Virtual join-directory on Windows
Problem:
Say I have a video spanned over 2 files (vid001.avi & vid002.avi) and each file is on a seperate CD/DVD. If the 2 files are in the same directory my player will automatically play the ...
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How to properly store dotfiles in a centralized git repository
I'd like to put all my dotfiles (like .profile, .gitconfig, etc.) in a central git repository, so I can more easily keep track of the changes. I did this, but I would like to know how to properly ...
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How do you create a working Hard Link in OSX?
Ok, this has me banging my head. In OS X, to create a hard link, in a terminal window, you're supposed to be able to just type this...
ln a.txt b.txt
...and this should create a hard link from ...
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How to get all hardlinks to the same data?
Have several hardlinks to the same file.
How (for example) by one file(hardlink) get others pointing to the same data?
No real task. Just interesting. May be useful.
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What is a hard link in Linux?
I have searched around and am trying to understand the difference between a hard link and symbolic link (soft link).
I found this link is quite useful. But I am still not very clear. I understand ...
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Using NTFS hard links to combine full/differential backups
Short: Is it possible to (robo)copy a directory tree using hard links instead of physical copy?
I want to make a daily backup of my data files, every day in it's own directory. Now most files don't ...
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What's the difference between a Windows hard link and a Linux hard link?
The open source package BackupPC does not run on Windows due to its lack of support for hard links. I did a search and came across this document referring to hard links in Windows.
Are these somehow ...
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How to stop Windows 7 Built-in-Backup creating a System Image of too many drives?
I do not want to include (D:) drive in the image.
I believe I know the cause of this, it's because I have some Directory Junctions and/or Symbolic Links.
Any suggestions other than removing the ...
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Using junctions to get all my user files on the backup drive
I generally prefer to back up just my data files, and not my program files, since I can always reinstall the programs. This is easier if I put programs on one hard drive and data on another.
But ...
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How do I delete hardlinks, symbolic links, junction points, etc please?
I could be wrong, but I'm yet to hear a valid argument for the exploitability that these things deliver...outweighing their very dubious / debatable functionality. They seem to me to be marginally ...
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Using mklink /h results in “Access is denied.”
From command prompt with Administrator privilages:
c:\>mklink /h c:\dirA c:\Users\Piotr\dirB
Access is denied.
I'm on Vista x64. Using /j or /d instead of /h works. What's the problem?
Related:
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How much space do NTFS hardlinks/symlinks occupy?
Well, I guess it must be something proportional to the original filename plus the new filename for symlinks, and only the new filename for hardlinks, but how does this affect the disk space exactly? I ...
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Make a hard link without extra programs in Windows 7
My objective here is to synchronize my emule credit file (application.dat?) by Dropbox. But the credit file is not inside the Dropbox directory (by default). So I want to make a hard link to get this ...
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Hard links on AFP
I'm trying to run MacPorts via AFP. Most ports run fine but I'm trying to install mercurial, which requires the MacPorts Python 2.6 file.
Building Python 2.6 chokes on the following line in the ...
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Windows7 hardlink over two different drives
I am trying to create a hardlink on my C drive that points to a file on my D drive. I open up a terminal with Administrator privileges and try the following:
C:\Users\sandro>mklink /H _vimrc ...
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Equivalent for Windows 7 “mklink” on OS X?
Is there a feature on OS X that does the same as mklink under Windows 7? It can create symbolic links and hard links.
I have just read about this tool to have Dropbox sync an application folder by ...
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What are hardlinks on windows 7?
What are hardlinks and how are they different from files?
If i have a hardlink would all apps believe the link is a file? (I had programs not open files because they were shortcuts)
If i modify a ...
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How can I move a bunch of hardlinked files from a Linux box onto my OS X Mac and preserve the hardlinks?
I have an rsnapshot backup that I need to move off of a corrupt Linux file system. I need to preserve the internal hardlinks. I've tried rsync -H and using a newer rsync and neither preserve the ...
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How can I check the actual size used in an NTFS directory with many hardlinks?
On a Win7 NTFS volume, I'm using cwrsync which supports --link-dest correctly to create "snapshot" type backups. So I have:
z:\backups\2010-11-28\cygdrive\c\Users\...
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Accessing files obscured by filesystem mounted at non-empty directory
I wish to mount a volume/filesystem at a non-empty directory, yet still retain access to the directory's contents. Is this possible?
I know that a filesystem can be mounted at a non-empty directory ...
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Can I save space in a Maildir by hard-linking identical message files?
Obviously, the answer to the question in the title is yes. But I really want to know if I can do it without breaking anything.
I am using offlineimap to back up my Gmail account to a Maildir on my ...
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Editing softlinked files in UNIX
Let's say I have file A, and using 'ln -s A B', I have B.
When I open, edit and save B, now B is not symlink anymore. It's just a new copy of A.
Is this expected behavior? I use Mac OS X, and I ...
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Unable to preserve hard links. Why?
I'm trying to create a Makefile that would automate remastering Knoppix distribution.
I'm trying to copy filesystem from the read-only compressed loop device to normal filesystem to be able to modify ...
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File disappears from Finder when hard link copy is deleted
Ok, I just got quite the scare... I have a folder with some important files. Using the Terminal I had created hard-links to those files in a different folder. Something like this:
mkdir test
ln ...
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TextEdit not caring about hard links? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Hard link not works under Mac OS X in GUI mode
I did a little experiment. First I ran the following in a Terminal:
mkdir test
cd test
echo "A" > a
echo "B" > b
ln ...
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Is there a Windows 7 equivalent to the *NIX ability to create a hard link to /dev/null?
I saw another question here that the Windows equivalent to /dev/null is simply NUL. I also know that you can use the mklink command to make sym links (shortcuts) from the command line:
MKLINK [[/D] ...
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hardlinks on ntfs with windows
How can I create hardlinks for a file on an NTFS partition using Windows?
NTFS can obviously handle hardlinks, since creating them with NTFS-3g works – the links even work in Windows. Is this the ...
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Hard link not works under Mac OS X in GUI mode
I faced a little strange behavior, while using hard links.
From Terminal, I create a text file 1.txt and a hard link "to this file"
nano 1.txt
mkdir dir
ln 1.txt ./dir/
I check the resulting hard ...
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Detect if two files are hard linked in Windows XP
I know I can use the command
fsutil hardlink <new_file> <existing file>
To create a hard link from the command prompt.
My question is: is there a command line tool that will allow me ...
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Unix: softlinks, hardlinks
I am somewhat confused what the differences between a softlink, and a hardlink are (on unix).
It seems like a softlink is the same as a shortcut in windows or an alias on Mac OS X. (Can someone ...
