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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2012-July/008169.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2012-July/008169.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a3172743d --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2012-July/008169.html @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-discuss] Symbolic links in Windows 7 + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20Symbolic%20links%20in%20Windows%207&In-Reply-To=%3C20120709133903.2cc0bf26%40dougshost.douglaidlaw.net%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="008168.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="008170.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Symbolic links in Windows 7</H1> + <B>Doug Laidlaw</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20Symbolic%20links%20in%20Windows%207&In-Reply-To=%3C20120709133903.2cc0bf26%40dougshost.douglaidlaw.net%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] Symbolic links in Windows 7">laidlaws at hotkey.net.au + </A><BR> + <I>Mon Jul 9 05:39:03 CEST 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008168.html">[Mageia-discuss] Symbolic links in Windows 7 +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008170.html">[Mageia-discuss] Symbolic links in Windows 7 +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8169">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8169">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8169">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8169">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:34:32 -0400 +andre999 <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">andre999mga at laposte.net</A>> wrote: + +><i> Doug Laidlaw a écrit : +</I>><i> > I made this one from Linux. I can't even see them in Windows. They +</I>><i> > seem to count as hidden files. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> +</I>><i> msw has had symbolic links not recognisable as such by Linux for a +</I>><i> long time, by default hidden under msw. +</I>><i> What you observe seems to indicate that msw7 has migrated to +</I>><i> unix-style symbolic links. +</I>><i> Interesting. Gradually Microsoft is adopting more and more unix (and +</I>><i> Linux-compatible) features. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> (BTW, it would be easier for others to respond point by point if you +</I>><i> and others didn't top post.) +</I> +Normally I don't. But the first reply was top-posted, so I kept going +in the same direction. + +Doug. +><i> +</I>><i> > Doug. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 15:08:06 -0700 +</I>><i> > Jeff Robins<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">jeffrobinssae at gmail.com</A>> wrote: +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> >> NTFS has had symbolic links for a long time. I think since at least +</I>><i> >> win2k, but no one used them, even MS. I don't think you could even +</I>><i> >> make them with the normal tools. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> --Jeff +</I>><i> >> On Jul 8, 2012 7:37 AM, "Doug Laidlaw"<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">laidlaws at hotkey.net.au</A>> +</I>><i> >> wrote: +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >>> Everybody probably knows this except me :( +</I>><i> >>> +</I>><i> >>> Browsing my new Windows 7 installation, I noticed a lot of +</I>><i> >>> symbolic links, identified by Linux as such. AFAIK, this is new +</I>><i> >>> in Win7; it wasn't there in WinXP, which I have been using. +</I>><i> >>> +</I>><i> >>> I have just used this advantage to get around the following +</I>><i> >>> problem: +</I>><i> >>> +</I>><i> >>> Directories with spaces can be excluded in rsnapshot, by replacing +</I>><i> >>> the space with a ?, but a bug in rsync prevents directories with +</I>><i> >>> spaces from being backed up at all. In the parent Windows +</I>><i> >>> directory, I created a symlink without spaces for the inaccessible +</I>><i> >>> sub-directory. I was able to create it and add it +</I>><i> >>> to /etc/rsnapshot.conf, and the backup proceeded to completion. +</I>><i> >>> Changing the name of the subdirectory would probably have made it +</I>><i> >>> unusable by its Windows app. If Windows hadn't allowed it, I +</I>><i> >>> would have put the link somewhere in Linux. +</I>><i> >>> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> You can also rename directories in msw, to remove spaces, or just +</I>><i> make shorter. +</I>><i> >>> Doug. +</I>><i> >>> +</I>><i> >>> +</I> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008168.html">[Mageia-discuss] Symbolic links in Windows 7 +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008170.html">[Mageia-discuss] Symbolic links in Windows 7 +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8169">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8169">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8169">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8169">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |