This one time, at band camp, Stephen Gran said: > This one time, at band camp, Lennart Sorensen said: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 07:16:37PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > I think you are going about it wrong, or looking at it backwards, or > > > something. It may be helpful to note that filesystems are mounted > > > _over_ an existing mount point, not under. So, if you have two > > > directories: > > > /media/pendrive > > > /ia32/media/pendrive > > > > > > and you bind mount /media/pendrive onto /ia32/media/pendrive, you get > > > exactly what is in /media/pendrive *right now*. When you later mount > > > the actual pendrive _over top_ of /media/pendrive, it does nothing to > > > what's underneath of it, and so the bind mount is unaffected. > > > > > > So, all that being said, your solution is actually not a bad one, and > > > seems to work. If you want an easier to maintain setup, the only thing > > > I can think off the top of my head would be > > > a) hard linking the directory one level up (e.g., /media), this will of > > > course only work if they are on the same file system. > > > > You don't hardlink directories. > > steve@mercury:~$ man ln | grep -A 1 \\-d > -d, -F, --directory > hard link directories (super-user only) That being said, I just tried it, and it doesn;t work, so perhaps you're right :( Sorry - I was just going by that line in the man page. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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