Crazy directory thing
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Jun 8 20:27:03 UTC 2005
Robin Laing wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:05:59AM -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I now know why I am having problems with a couple of things I an
>>> trying to do from the CLI. The more I think about it, the more it is
>>> a bug. I will wait until I install FC4 to see if this is still an
>>> issue.
>>
>>
>>
>> It will be.
>>
>> Bash is trying its best to do what you want -- to pretend that symlinked
>> directories are bind mounts (see the man page for mount, lookit
>> "--bind").
>
> I will have to learn about bind mounts and how to use them. This may be
> the best option for the other 10% of situations. Especially for various
> directories that are common across users such as music and movies.
>
> This is fun. :)
Well I did some testing of the mount --bind and I find that works
exactly the way I want things to be. I will try it some more from
home and see what happens. Thank you for pointing me in this direction.
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Robin Laing
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