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Asked: 2011-12-27 02:16:33 +0800 CST

Make folders on multiple drives appear in a single folder without using symlinks

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I have directories sorted by date on different physical drives:

/mnt/drive1/2000
/mnt/drive1/2001
/mnt/drive2/2002
/mnt/drive3/2003
/mnt/drive4/2004
/mnt/drive4/2005
/mnt/drive5/2006

How can I get them to appear in a single folder, without using symbolic links?

/library/2000
/library/2001
/library/2002
/library/2003
/library/2004
/library/2005
/library/2006

Can I "mount" the folders to another folder? The reason I shy away from symlinks is because when I use applications like rsync and scp, I'd like to be able to copy to the symbolically linked directory without worrying about special flags to ensure the symlinks are followed.

Thanks.

linux mount symbolic-link

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Two options:

    1) Use Hard symlinks. Rsync doesn't need special flags to traverse these, because they look like part of the filesystem. - Of course, this only works on the same filesystem, which doesn't apply.

    2) A bind mount. sudo mount -o bind /source /dest.

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