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Steps to reproduce

Junctions are an NTFS-specific feature, so trying to create them on other file-systems should result in an error.

# On a Unix-like platform / non-NTFS file-system
New-Item foo -Target $HOME -type Junction

Expected behavior

A (statement-terminating) error should occur.

Actual behavior

The item type is quietly accepted and no discernible action is performed: no output, no creation of an item named foo.

Note: If there's a preexisting foo item, a confusing error about (the expanded value of) $HOME/foo not being a directory is emitted.

Error details

Environment data

PowerShell 7.6.0

Visuals

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