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fstab and automounting permanent symlinks

I'm running a proftpd server (on Ubuntu 8.04 server) with user accounts chrooted to their home directories. I have a share directory that I want all users to access. So in order to get out of chroot jail I need to set up a symlink like so...

Code:

mount --bind /share /home/john/share

This works until I reboot the server. I want to make this symlink permanent which from what I understand requires an entry in the fstab file.

So the question is how do I automount a symlink?

Code:

/dev/hdb1 /home ext2 defaults 1 2

Would mount the hard disk /dev/hdb1 to the /home directory. Would I want

Code:

/share /home/john/share auto rw,auto,user,sync 0 0

? To mount my /share directory inside my chrooted /home/john/share?

All of the examples I have found are for automounting hardware not directories on existing hardware.

Thanks!

I haven't actually tested this but there's no reason why this wouldn't work, just add the bind option there.

Code:

/dir1 /dir2 none bind 0 0

I am not sure if the fs would be ok as none or if it would require the real fs or auto, whatever.

But you could also just mount the real device many times. I usually do things like these on desktop boxes with /tmp and /var/tmp

Code:

/dev/sdb9 /tmp ext2 noatime 0 1

/dev/sdb9 /var/tmp ext2 noatime 0 1

Awesome!

Everything works now. Thanks for your input!