From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KPfRs-0005HQ-Ro for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:24:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 710E0E03CD; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 15:24:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.172]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E319E03CD for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 15:24:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 23so1696375wfg.10 for ; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:24:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=atGSBqHB7Ojxblrc7aVx68ZyN2ZRvBFCJm5YbJmp6Nw=; b=denpxQZP0CB6YKExW2KHPOmMZXzqL5c5pKt70XSP/2F1MDTuRUbZRzYciDvEAQPmPG kOaEjwOl9HZwkJQ1cWWlefKAayWyd4ZtE1cgW5J7lhbGkJGsuYha5Rw3qDo7pahzWiSv J2CbBBlgE5uniHqdt2nPJXpxAG3hOXvz4NjA8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=gbEa6ax59qhVIFb9MMYJPi+yao087KaptclTszVI7+47KBnJHC/JTCrcI3UO7y2vVG SejmYIDBaxulNrhrj4tPYdSvYuq7yx135JAwzXvAic+n8EsEdwmm2PzAbCmZqgULyG8/ ausSi5YI7j+QGTNllzHocHzMRSBFlSkGFTqQI= Received: by 10.142.222.4 with SMTP id u4mr4564483wfg.329.1217777082682; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:24:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.161.14 with HTTP; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 08:24:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7bef1f890808030824x30265485t70ed7149e291aa80@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 01:24:42 +1000 From: "Alan E. Davis" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory In-Reply-To: <200808031517.00399.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_30004_32258347.1217777082677" References: <7bef1f890808030500s3f6ccf52sa9e06be69f6bacd@mail.gmail.com> <200808031517.00399.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Archives-Salt: 7d77bb16-e150-4f3d-8b2c-9ef121d241ac X-Archives-Hash: d452a7dd6b25184cf9b4d5dca91e3d9d ------=_Part_30004_32258347.1217777082677 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote: > > > man mount, also google for 'bind' mounting. > Thank you. That was it. IN answer to another query, as to why not symlink, I cannot point to a particular behavior, but I have found that symlinks do not behave in all situations like real hardlinks. What I want it something like a hardlink to a directory. I think this may be possible with bind mounting. One major problem with nautilus or any other GUI file manager---in fact many, many GUI programs that rely on mouse input primarily---has been the loss of subtler capabilities like hard link. I've been looking at using hardlinks to organize my literature collection. A single paper may belong equally in several categories. Or for photos, to go beyond, say, catalogs in gthumbs: catalogs are possibly lost in an upgrade or minor accident. I'd be interested in seeing particular examples of the use of bind mounts for the purposes I propose. Reiterating: - mounting a directory from another tree with a full status in all respects as a directory on the current tree. - mounting a directory in several places. (A subdirectory of microscopical images and another subdirectory of notes can be linked together in the same directory under the specific project or organism under study). Perhaps a more skilled approach to the use of symlinks would serve the same purpose more directly? Thank you again for the input. Alan -- Alan Davis "It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..." ---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man ------=_Part_30004_32258347.1217777082677 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline


On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:


man mount, also google for 'bind' mounting.

Thank you.  That was it.  IN answer to another query, as to why not symlink, I cannot point to a particular behavior, but I have found that symlinks do not behave in all situations like real hardlinks.  What I want it something like a hardlink to a directory.

I think this may be possible with bind mounting. 

One major problem with nautilus or any other GUI file manager---in fact many, many GUI programs that rely on mouse input primarily---has been the loss of subtler capabilities like hard link.  I've been looking at using hardlinks to organize my literature collection.  A single paper may belong equally in several categories.  Or for photos, to go beyond, say, catalogs in gthumbs: catalogs are possibly lost in an upgrade or minor accident.

 I'd be interested in seeing particular examples of the use of bind mounts for the purposes I propose.  Reiterating:

   - mounting a directory from another tree with a full status in all respects as a directory on the current tree. 
   - mounting a directory in several places.   (A subdirectory of microscopical images and another subdirectory of notes can be linked together in the same directory under the specific project or organism under study).

Perhaps a more skilled approach to the use of symlinks would serve the same purpose more directly?

Thank you again for the input.

Alan



--
Alan Davis

"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..."
---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man

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