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Re: Best way to combine file systems?



On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:42:08PM -0700, Ross Boylan said
> Do people agree that mount --rbind is generally preferable?  (I think
> this is a well known system administration issue, but googling didn't
> turn up much).
> 
> Second, if I do that, is it possible to set up these mounts via fstab?

Yes.

> How?  

Use "bind" as the filesystem type, iirc.

> And if it is possible, is it a good idea?

Why not just mount the new disk somewhere under the original one?  This
is unix, the mountpoint will be transparent.

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