On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 03:43:32PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote: > I have an NTFS external USB drive that I sometimes attach to an > (old) Windows XP box that has Cygwin installed, and other times I > attach it to an Ubuntu box. I made a bunch of symlinks in Cygwin on > XP but when I look at them on Ubuntu they are just small regular > files. > > So my first question is basically this: What are you guys doing to > deal with this kind of issue? It would be best if I could make > symlinks that just worked in Linux and Windows. Can that be done? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link Andrew