Instead of hard or soft links, try to use mount.
The root directory probably doesn't have files but only subdirectories.
In this case, you can turn all invariant subdirectories into mount points.
The users will then have each his/her own root filesystem. But they
will mount the common stuff at mount points, which are subdirectories of
that root FS.
Another option is to mount the root FS from NFS, and then mount the
personal directory at a mount point inside the root FS.
--- Omer
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On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Michael Sternberg wrote:
>
>
> Hello list.
> sorry if this question is trivial - I
> could not find the solution.
>
> Here is the situation:
> I have a number of people (lets say 10),
> each one have a Linux with its root fs
> mounted on NFS.
>
> Most of content of this fs is the same,
> only one directory differs.
>
> The quick and ugly solution will be to
> create 10 huge root filesystems on NFS
> server that are almost identical and
> differ only by one small directory.
>
> How can I make all users to share the same
> common set of files ? Soft links did not
> helped me and hard links I'm from some
> reason I'm not permitted to create (even
> when I try as root).
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