RE:2 partitions - same dir?
Rory O'Connor writes:
> I've got a drive that's completely full of files, mounted at /home/dir.
> I added a second drive so I could continue storing files of the same
> type, and mounted it at /home/dir2.
>
> Is there a way to make it so that it appears these files are all in one
> dir? I don't think it's possible to mount two partitions at the same
> point...but perhaps with dynamic links?
Sure. Check out stow, which will do a lot of the work for you, or
manually make a script to create the soft links from /home/dir2 to
/home/dir.
You can also investigate LVM, which should allow the kind of thing
you're thinking of:
http://www.sistina.com/lvm_howtos/lvm_howto/
http://www.sistina.com/products_lvm.htm
Andrew.
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