Crazy directory thing

[Robin Laing]

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.
-- 
Robin Laing