If I have 2 Paths for files, both share the same FileStore, how can I verify with Java 17 whether they are pointing to the same file on disk (are hard-linked)? For Unix-like systems there seems at least to be a way to verify whether a file has other hardlinks (get Hard Link Count in Java), but on Windows/NTFS I haven’t yet found a way to get either information, except of invoking fsutil hardlink list <file-path> and parsing the output. If necessary, a workaround using JNA would also fine for me.
PS: I have already searched Stackoverflow, but only found similar questions for Python or C#.
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Answer
Files.isSameFile(path1, path2) checks whether they are hard-linked.