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Old 01-05-2006, 02:33 AM
Sean Kavanaugh
 
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Default Recusive Mount Point eating up my disk

Never having heard of mount points, I created a mount point on my only
volume (C, which created a "c:\drive path" directory. Soon afterwards, my
antivirus software took ages to scan my hard drive. After 20+ hours of
scanning, I noticed I had nearly a million files on my disk! In the
'c:\drive path' JUNCTION is a copy of my c:\ drive, including a dir c:\drive
path\drive path! There are many more mirrors until the XP limit is hit. How
do I remove this JUNCTION point harmlessly? It all seems obvious now. Moral
of story, never mount yourself!


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Old 01-05-2006, 02:33 AM
Ramesh, MS-MVP
 
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Default Re: Recusive Mount Point eating up my disk

Sysinternals Freeware - Junction:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html

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Never having heard of mount points, I created a mount point on my only
volume (C, which created a "c:\drive path" directory. Soon afterwards, my
antivirus software took ages to scan my hard drive. After 20+ hours of
scanning, I noticed I had nearly a million files on my disk! In the
'c:\drive path' JUNCTION is a copy of my c:\ drive, including a dir c:\drive
path\drive path! There are many more mirrors until the XP limit is hit. How
do I remove this JUNCTION point harmlessly? It all seems obvious now. Moral
of story, never mount yourself!



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