On Sonntag, 3. August 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: > Thanks to advice on this list I have a reasonably stable system now, and > it's time to get hands dirty. I have more GB of collected files than I > can fit into my ~/ home directory, so I am planning to link several > partitions to ~/ in an effort to organize this mass. > > 1. How could one reasonably link a subdir of a partition as a subdir or > folder of one's ~/, for example, /dev/sdd3/VIDEO (partition on that > partition called VIDEO) as a subdirectory, ~/VIDEO? I want ~/VIDEO to > behave identically as it would if it were on the same partition as ~/ . At > least to the greatest extent possible. I have seen some arcane arrangement > somewhere, but to what extent is that necessary to do? I would rather > avoid having to mount the entire parition as a subdir, and then have to > access, for example, ~/ARCHIVE/VIDEO.
man mount, also google for 'bind' mounting. > > 2. As an aside, Nautllus (~/amd64 Gnome overlay, version 2.23.5.1) > behavior differs from that in Ubuntu. because ubuntu patches A LOT. Ubuntu-gnome is not gnome.
