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Alan E. Davis ha scritto:
> Thanks to advice on this list I have a reasonably stable system now, and 
> it's time to get hands dirty.   I have more GB of collected files than I 
> can fit into my ~/ home directory, so I am planning to link several 
> partitions to ~/ in an effort to organize this mass.
> 
> 1.  How could one reasonably link a subdir of a partition as a subdir or 
> folder of one's ~/, for example, /dev/sdd3/VIDEO (partition on that 
> partition called VIDEO) as a subdirectory, ~/VIDEO?  I want ~/VIDEO to 
> behave identically as it would if it were on the same partition as ~/ .  
> At least to the greatest extent possible.  I have seen some arcane 
> arrangement somewhere, but to what extent is that necessary to do?  I 
> would rather avoid having to mount the entire parition as a subdir, and 
> then have to access, for example, ~/ARCHIVE/VIDEO.

What's wrong with using symbolic links?

m.