making a directory tree:

[Steve Dawes]

no, think about it.
You have a set of isos that you have mounted and now you want to make them
appear as a single volume. That is what I am trying to do.


Steve



-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Sina Bahram
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 8:35 AM
To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
Subject: RE: making a directory tree:


Symbolic links could definitely work, but that's just one level away.

As for having all the files from different directories in one directory ...
wouldn't this be impossible to do with any command?

Think about it .. If I have the directories, 1 and 2, and inside 1 I have a
file called a.txt and inside 2 I have a file called a.txt .. That's
perfectly fine, but if they merge ... *whistle*

Take care,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Joseph C. Lininger
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 10:00 AM
To: sdawes at telus.net; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: making a directory tree:

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
Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7

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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