1 Mount 2 Folders
I have read the threads that somewhat touch on this...but I still must ask, as the situation wasnt quite the same.
1st quarter Linux student here...go easy :) I created a /archive mountpoint containing my archive when installing Linux I want to mount that into 2 folders which are /var/ftp/pub /archive I only know how to mount to one of them by modifying the fstab Can anybody give me the syntax for mounting the one point to both. It is much appreciated. |
do you know what the actual device is? can you use that, also have you tried just creating two entries bot pointing at the same mountpoint?
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The terminology here can be confusing. Normally, you mount (read "connect") a device to a mount point. The device is described as something like /dev/hdc4 (4th partition on the 3rd HD in a basic IDE bus)
A mount point is normally a folder in the file system. "mount /dev/hdc4 <mountpoint>" means "connect this device to this folder so that I can read the contents by opening the folder" You can mount a device to two different mountpoints--maybe more. You can NOT mount two different devices to the same mount point. Once the device is mounted, you can also mount subfolders using the --bind option in mount. |
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I appreciate the terminology update...I welcome it...I dont want to sound out of place here. /achive is a partition I have noted in the past that when I ran the 'mount' command it would say this device has already been mounted. (when mounted to one folder) Are you guys saying that I can add two lines to my fstab, from one partition, pointing to two directories? - and it will do both? |
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I'm confused. Partition names are not of the form "/archive". A partition is described in the general form /dev/XdYN
X is typically "h" for IDE/ATAPI, and "s" for SCSI, USB, etc Y is the letter of the drive: normally #1 is "a", but can be something else if a third-party controller is installed. N is the number of the partition. /archive is the name of a file or directory in the root directory. If it is a directory, then it can be used as a mount point. Sooooo.../archive is not a partition, but it can be the route you take to **get to** a partition. <<end of semantic nitpick>> |
Ok here is the answer in case somebody should need to know...
It can be done! Look at my example of the /etc/fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/archive /archive ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/archive /var/ftp/pub ext3 defaults 1 2 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-hdc6 swap swap defaults 0 0 (We are discussing LABEL=/archive at the top) All I had to do was put in another line telling it to go somewhere else as well. Using the mount command didnt work, so editing the fstab is the only way I can see to do it... all I can tell you is that it works. Thanks all around for the help...I have more questions on a differant subject, so I will see you around. Latez... Bishop |
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