pictures folder

[Michael Havens]

that is interesting, Brian; thank you.
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> On 01/29/2013 12:24 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> I have a question
>> though, I tested it and when I copied a file into /home/bmike1/Pictures
>>
>> the file went to the desired directory. Why if I copy it to the desired
>> directory directly does it not go to /home/bmike1/Pictures also? It must
>> have to do with the order you put the the two directories in
>>
>
> A bind mount works like mounting any other hard drive.  Everything below
> the place that you mount the filesystem gets replaced by the drive you
> mount on top of it.  If your filesystem were a tree it would be like
> cutting off a limb and grafting a new limb onto where you cut it off.
> There is a way to layer up directories, it's call a Union filesystem and
> allows you to merge directories together, but they are a little harder to
> setup that just a simple mount.
>
>
>  sudo mount ~bmike1/Pictures
>>
>> why is it '~bmike1/Pictures' and not '~/bmike1/Pictures'?
>>
>
> the ~ means "home directory of", if you have just a ~ by itself it will
> refer to the home directory of the current user, if you put a ~ in front of
> a user name, it means the home directory of that user.
> Since you were most likely mounting stuff as root, you needed to include
> the user name after the ~, otherwise you could have simply put ~/Pictures.
> In your case if you were to have put ~/bmike1/Pictures, as root it would
> actually turn into the path /root/bmike1/Pictures or if you had run the
> command as bmike1 it would have really meant /home/bmike1/bmike1/pictures
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
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