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Reparse Points

I have two needs for working with both junctions and volume mount points that don't have good tools out in the public domain that meet the needs.

I should qualify that everything I use needs to be easily integrated into scripts, and be able to handle the full 32,767 characters in a path with all the funky characters that NTFS can use. (Someone tell me why even windows explorer can't do this!?!??)

1. I need to be able to list all volumes on a server and paths they are mounted to
2. I need to be able to easily find every junction on a drive as quickly as possible

I have learned how to do both of these, and will be posting tools with code in the near future.

My articles for reparse points

• Understanding Reparse Points
• C# Reparse Point Enumerator

External Links for Reparse Points

• MSDN Win32 Reparse Points Reference
• Wikipedia NFTS Reparse Points
• Wikipedia NTFS Junction Point
• Sysinternals Junction Tool
• How to create and manipulate NTFS junction points
• Codeproject example of working with reparse points