[TriLUG] OT: mounting a directory on a different volume

Gregory Woodbury ggw at wolves.homeip.net
Tue Apr 29 22:52:36 EDT 2003


"It was written once upon a time (by Greg Brown):"
> 
> It's late and I must be doing something wrong.
> 
> I have two disks in my system, one of which contains the home directory 
> and one of which contains my /opt directory.
> 
> df -h output:
> /dev/hda3              7906196   3940416   3564156  53% /
> /dev/hda2               248895     10197    225846   5% /boot
> /dev/hda4             10449900   2686836   7232116  28% /home
> /dev/hdb1             76920416  36622148  36390860  51% /opt
> 
> I would like to mount /opt/backups/g-mac on /home/gwbrown1/g-mac so 
> that anything created in /home/gwbrown1/g-mac to /opt/backup/g-mac
> 
> This seems easy enough yet I seem to be doing something obviously 
> wrong.  Any ideas on how to get this to work?
> 
> Oh yeah - the machine in question is RH 8.0.

That sort of thing isn't done with mount.  I'd use a symbolic link from
one place to the other.

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