On Wednesday 15 February 2006 02:01 pm, Paul Dickson wrote:
> 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

I think you should associate a partition /dev/hda4 with the mount point
not a mount point with another directory.


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