Fun little DOS command
I discovered the following commands during some of my internet travels:
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=205524
The LINKD command interested me for being able to mount drives to a particular directory like is normally used in POSIX systems. The way it is used is like the following:
LINKD C:\ edrive E:\
It’s pretty sweet, keeps you from needing to go all over your drive letters for things, just subdirectories. One unfortunate thing is that it does not appear to work for mapped network drives.
In order to get around this issue, I thought to myself, “what would happen if I used the SUBST command to mount the UNC path and then use LINKD to mount that?” I tried it, and it didn’t work. :(
I’m not sure if there’s any way to mount a network drive to a directory at this time, but the LINKD will give me a nice RAID-ish structure to my drives so i can hide the drive letters and just use the directories.
Have fun!
