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What are the hard links and why they need?

What are the hard links and why they need?

Among a great number ot technological innovations Microsoft presented in Windows 2000 there was the hard links technology, as well.

This technology is modern and much more effective alternative to the shortcuts to programs and documents. It is acts as just new pointer to a file in the file system. In other words the hard links technology makes possible the appearance of the files in the file system in two, three or more names. The file in two or more names occupies space as one file, at that.

It provides additional freedom in management of your hard disk. You can make that the file will be accessible from two directories simultaneously. You can find all equal files in some large directory and clear a space in it owing to the fact that the recuring files are replaced with hard links. There will not repeated filling the disk with the same data.

Why we need the program Same Files Assistant?

Actually, it is simply to create the hard link becasue it is only one light-programming function. You can find some programs around Internet which do that. More difficult thing is to know a file with which it is linked. In general, about 70 percents of the business logic of the program Same Files Assistant are dedicated to a process of registration for the hard links.

Yes, indeed! As soon as you miss even if one link to the file, you will have to scan all disk for finding it!

Thus, the Same Files Assistant is a very useful program intended for doing the following functions:

1. Creating the hard links;
2. Breaking off the hard links between the files;
3. Registrating all the hard links on a disk