making a directory tree:

[Joseph C. Lininger]

Hello,
You can't use the mount --bind call to mount more than one directory or
file at a time. In other words, you can only specify a single source and
a single target. If you want to have all subdirectories available in a
single directory, I suggest using the "ln" command to create symbolic
links to the directories you are attempting to access.

Equal causes can produce very unequal effects.
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
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And so it came to pass that on Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Steve Dawes said

> Can anyone give me any suggestions as to how they would resolve the
> following:
>
> I have four directories, let's call them 1 2 3 4.
> Now what I would like to do is have the contents of these directories
> available in a single directory tree, let's call it alldirs.
>
> I am quite familiar with mount --bind and its strengths, but I cannot
figure
> out how .
> For example, mount --bind 1 alldirs, will expose the contents of 1 in
> alldirs, as though the contents of 1 are actually now in alldirs.
> However, I cannot figure how to do something similar that would allow
me to
> combine four directories into one directory tree.
> I have tried:
> mount --bind 1,2,3,4 alldirs
> mount --bind 1 2 3 4 alldirs
> mount --bind 1:2:3:4 alldirs
> and none of these work.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Steve
>
> Steve Dawes
> Calgary Canada.
>
>
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