On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:30:39PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:42:08PM -0700, Ross Boylan said > > Do people agree that mount --rbind is generally preferable? (I think > > this is a well known system administration issue, but googling didn't > > turn up much). > > > > Second, if I do that, is it possible to set up these mounts via fstab? > > Yes. > > > How? > > Use "bind" as the filesystem type, iirc. > > > And if it is possible, is it a good idea? > > Why not just mount the new disk somewhere under the original one? This > is unix, the mountpoint will be transparent. > I'm only mounting parts of file systems e.g., /scratch and /usr are mounts of actual partitions. I want /scratch/download to appear as /usr/local/download, /scratch/foo/bar to appear somewhere else, etc.
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