Win7 All-in-One hardlink optimization

[Ulaiphur]

Hi guys. I know that all dvds contain multiple versions of windows inside install.wim and that they are all optimized by hardlinks for saving space. What I'm interesed is how to do the same for an install.wim containing both x86 and x64 versions? Some files in the x86 image match the x64 one and could be setup some hardlinks in order to save some megabytes.

[grabben]

Hardlinks?

We use image or gimagex to export all editions we want to a new *.wim and use maximum compression:)

[jaclaz]

See if this fits (to find current links):

http://www.coderforlife.com/projects/utilities/#FindLinks

Then you can use either mklink:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753194(WS.10).aspx

or ln or it's GUI Link Shell:

http://schinagl.priv.at/

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/ln/ln.html

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html

ln also can find links.

jaclaz