Windowsserverdocs: What are the different link types?

[timtribers]

Please provide an explanation of the different sorts of links.

Thanks

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• Content: mklink
• Content Source: WindowsServerDocs/administration/windows-commands/mklink.md
• Product: windows-server-threshold
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[coreyp-at-msft]

Hi @timtribers ,

There are symbolic links, hard links and junctions (aka soft links). We have documentation on the link types here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/FileIO/symbolic-links
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/FileIO/hard-links-and-junctions

We will add these links to this page ASAP, or you are welcome to submit a PR of your own to do the same in the meantime.

Thanks,
Corey

[timtribers]

You folks at Microsoft are so impressive these days - everything
(documentation in this case) is being put on to such a sensible basis,
opened up, and well supported. You are winning back a hardened old dev
like me. Thanks.

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On 26 July 2018 at 05:01, Corey Plett [e-mail] wrote:

Hi @timtribers https://github.com/timtribers ,

There are symbolic links, hard links and junctions (aka soft
links). We have documentation on the link types here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/FileIO/symbolic-links
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/FileIO/
hard-links-and-junctions

We will add these links to this page ASAP, or you are welcome to submit a
PR of your own to do the same in the meantime.

Thanks,
Corey

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[thisIsMikeKane]

I'm not sure why this issue is closed, when the links still need to be added to this page.

In addition to the descriptions from the links above, a summary table of the impact of each type of link would be helpful (example).

[thisIsMikeKane]

Sorry, linked to the wrong page in my previous comment. Here is a great summary table example
https://ss64.com/nt/mklink.html