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05-16-2006, 01:23 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Bhopal, India
Distribution: RHEL 6
Posts: 422
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Can I "mount <some_directory> <another_directory>"?
Hello Friends,
I have directory named /media/hda7/Songs which I wish to mount to my /var/www/songs directory. I know how to mount a filesystem to a directory with
Code:
mount /dev/hda7 -t ext2 /media/hda7
But, now I wish to mount only a directory instead of a device. Is it possible?
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05-16-2006, 01:27 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: The Matrix
Distribution: Gentoo, Redhat, OS X
Posts: 21
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Wouldn't a sym link do the same thing?
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05-16-2006, 01:38 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2004
Distribution: Mint, MX, antiX, SystemRescue
Posts: 2,337
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For simple things, a symlink - like labratmatt said. For more complex things, like overlaying multiple directories into a single mountpoint, ... unionfs
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05-16-2006, 01:41 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Distribution: Mandriva Slackware FreeBSD
Posts: 1,468
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You could mount /media/hda7 in multiple locations but you can't mount the directory. But like was said above a symlink will do the same thing.
ln -s /media/hda7 /var/www/songs_directory
KC
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05-16-2006, 02:27 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Bhopal, India
Distribution: RHEL 6
Posts: 422
Original Poster
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Quote:
Originally Posted by labratmatt
Wouldn't a sym link do the same thing?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by haertig
For simple things, a symlink
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kencaz
ln -s /media/hda7 /var/www/songs_directory
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Thanks a lot friends.
Code:
ln -s /media/hda7/Songs /var/www/songs
The symlink did work fine. Thanks again.
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