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On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann < |
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volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> man mount, also google for 'bind' mounting. |
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Thank you. That was it. IN answer to another query, as to why not symlink, |
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I cannot point to a particular behavior, but I have found that symlinks do |
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not behave in all situations like real hardlinks. What I want it something |
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like a hardlink to a directory. |
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I think this may be possible with bind mounting. |
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One major problem with nautilus or any other GUI file manager---in fact |
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many, many GUI programs that rely on mouse input primarily---has been the |
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loss of subtler capabilities like hard link. I've been looking at using |
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hardlinks to organize my literature collection. A single paper may belong |
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equally in several categories. Or for photos, to go beyond, say, catalogs |
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in gthumbs: catalogs are possibly lost in an upgrade or minor accident. |
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I'd be interested in seeing particular examples of the use of bind mounts |
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for the purposes I propose. Reiterating: |
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- mounting a directory from another tree with a full status in all |
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respects as a directory on the current tree. |
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- mounting a directory in several places. (A subdirectory of |
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microscopical images and another subdirectory of notes can be linked |
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together in the same directory under the specific project or organism under |
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study). |
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Perhaps a more skilled approach to the use of symlinks would serve the same |
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purpose more directly? |
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Thank you again for the input. |
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Alan |
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Alan Davis |
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"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..." |
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---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man |
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