Why do You not use links? 1. mkdir /mnt/wd0 /mnt/wd1 2. mount /dev/wd0d /mnt/wd0 3. mount /dev/wd1d /mnt/wd1 4. cd /bananas 5. ln -s /mnt/wd0/* . 6. ln -s /mnt/wd1/* .
Regards Uwe > Hello all patient! > Another clarification attempt :) > I have a drive. Lets call it wd0. It has one partition wd0d that > fills up the whole drive. The root of wd0d has three directories (and > no other files) music, pictures and others. wd0d is mounted > at /bananas > > The music directory of wd0d grows and suddenly needs more space than > available on wd0. I add a new drive wd1 and create wd1d with all > available space. I copy everything in wd0d/music to wd1d. > > I still want the same structure as before, but i dont want to mount > wd1d in a directory that is inside wd0d. > > If mount would accept something like > > mount /bananas/ /pictures > mount /bananas/others /dev/wd0d/others > mount /bananas/music /dev/wd1d > > my problem would be solved. > > > > > On 16/01/2009, at 10:46 AM, Jon Sjvstedt wrote: > > > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Jon Sjvstedt > >>> <d00...@dtek.chalmers.se> > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Hello all! > >>>> I have an issue with mount. The problem is that i would like to > >>>> create > >>>> a > >>>> directory with subdirs. On the subdirs I would mount directories > >>>> of not > >>>> yet mounted disks. Example > >>>> > >>>> mount /stuff/data1 /wd0d/dataa > >>>> mount /stuff/data2 /wd0d/datab > >>>> mount /stuff/data3 /wd1d > >>>> mount /stuff/data4 /wd2d/datad > >>>> mount /stuff/data5 /wd2d/datae > >>>> > >>> > >>> Syntax of your mount commands is a bit strange... according to > >>> mount(8) the first argument should be a 'special' device, like > >>> /dev/wd0a, not a regular directory. > >> Clarification attempt: I know that mount wants a device > >> like /dev/wd0d, but my example was an atempt to explain what I > >> want to archive. I want a > >> mounting point in the root file system to be mounted with a > >> directory found inside a device that is not yet mounted. I also > >> want this transparent to samba and NFS (I'll use both). > >> > >> It would be perfectly ok to use more programs than mount to solve > >> this > >> > >>> > >>>> I want to do this because datax are all growing fast (it is my > >>>> music and > >>>> photos). Eventually dataa and datab will need their own disks. > >>>> > >>>> Can this be done in a neat way? I only want to mount disks on the > >>>> root > >>>> partition > >>>> > >>> > >>> If each datax directory has it's own partition it's perfectly > >>> possible. > >> The thing is that I want these mounted directories to share a disk > >> (or partition) until they both cant fit. Then, the biggest one > >> have to move away. If my ideas get to work, I only have to change > >> the device of the mounting, not the mounting point. > >>> > >>> However, it seems to me that (from your example above) 'dataa' and > >>> 'datab' are on the same partition, and, from mount(8): "For disk > >>> partitions, the special device must correspond to a partition > >>> registered in the disklabel(5).", so no deal. > > > > > > I'm still not understanding what you want or what the problem is. > > This appears to me to be a perfectly ordinary mounting situation. > > > > If you have a bunch of dirs, data[1-2], as subdirectories of /stuff, > > then you can put whatever you want in these. Then, at some point you > > can mount a different volume on any of these and the path will > > remain as /stuff/datax. If you wish to then change the mounted > > volume, just change your fstab or mount command as appropriate. > > This will work with samba and nfs, as long as your smb.conf and > > exports are set up correctly, and is a perfectly ordinary > > situation, as I said. > > > > I'm confused by: > >> I want a mounting point in the root file system to be mounted with > >> a directory > >> found inside a device that is not yet mounted. > > > > Do you want to hierarchically mount filesystems? This seems very > > odd. > > > > Have I somehow misunderstood? > > > > > > paulm > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <--------------------------------------------> > The d00...@dtek.chalmers.se email address will > eventually be abandoned during 2009. Please use > addresses below instead > Jon Sjvstedt _O_ > Godvddersgatan 52 /(|)\ > 418 38 GVTEBORG | H | > -OOO-[-+X+-]-OOO- > Hem 075 - 242 80 04 ( ) > Mobil 0735 - 029 557 _| |_ > > jonsjost...@gmail.com jonsjost...@hotmail.com
