The file continues to exist
until you remove all of the directory entries pointing to it. Any change you make to the content of
the new file also appears within the existing file, and vice versa. The main reason to use hard links
is to create the same file in multiple locations on the hard drive. For example, you might need to use
the same initialization file with multiple applications. Instead of copying the file multiple times,
you can simply create multiple hard links to it. This mode uses the following syntax:
FSUtil Hardlink Create NewFilename Filename
The following list describes each of the command line arguments.
NewFilename The name of the new file to create from the existing file. The new file is simply
a directory entry, not an actual copy of the file.
Filename The name of the existing file. You can include a drive and either relative or absolute
path information to the file, along with the filename.
ObjectID
Files on NTFS volumes have four identifiers: object, birth volume, birth object, and domain. Each of
these identifiers is a 16-byte hexadecimal number in the form of 17e0b9211e61da11879e0013d4337d7d.
The first three identifiers always have a value; the fourth identifier (domain) isn??™t currently used.
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