[ale] HOW2 link a partition to another disk's partition ?

[Courtney Thomas]

I cannot rm, unlink or rmdir.
I get....

cannot remove dir... device or resource busy
cannot unlink...is a dir

I should add the dir IS empty.

?

Courtney



JK wrote:

> Courtney Thomas wrote:
> 
> 
>> I have, say, /1st/home, on a first disk,
>> and want to move it's contents to another disk entirely,
>> and, by that fact empty /1st/home.
>> 
>> But, I still want to have /1st/home appear on the original disk,
>> but be empty BUT simply point to /2nd/home on the second disk.
>> 
>> In other words, when an access is required of /1st/home on the
>> original disk, that access is of /2nd/home on the second disk.
>> 
>> If I try to:
>> ln -s /2nd/home /1st/home,
>> I end up with a pointer 'inside' /1st/home, i.e. /1st/home/pointer
>> NOT... /1st/pointer.
>> 
>> What's the simplest solution, please ?
> 
> 
> Remove the directory /1st/home, *then* do ln -s /2nd/home /1st/home.
> 
> -- JK
> 
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