From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ns.pcdesk.net ([65.100.173.137] helo=pcdesk.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Diuuo-00036t-00 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:00:18 -0400 Received: from merlin.pcdesk.net ([::ffff:192.168.0.13]) (AUTH: LOGIN jbahm@pcdesk.net, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,128bits,RC4-MD5) by pcdesk.net with esmtp; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:59:39 -0600 id 02405AB4.42B185CB.00002334 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:59:43 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time) From: "Joseph C. Lininger" To: sdawes@telus.net, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: X-X-Sender: jbahm@pcdesk.net@imap.pcdesk.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: making a directory tree: X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:00:18 -0000 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@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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >