/home

Paul Dickson paul at permanentmail.com
Wed Feb 15 14:01:38 MST 2006


On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:30:19 -0700 (MST), Gerard Snitselaar wrote:

> No, 'ln -s /mnt/hda4 /home' wouldn't put /home on /mnt/hda4 it
> would create the link /home -> /mnt/hda4 . Which would mean
> when you cd to /home, what you would be seeing is the contents of
> /mnt/hda4/ . A symbolic link just points the the location of something
> else. Depending on the length of the path being linked it either gets
> stored in the inode itself or in the file.

How about:  mount -o bind /mnt/hda4 /home
or just:  umount /mnt/hda4; mount /dev/hda4 /home

	-Paul



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