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

[Courtney Thomas]

Randal,

Thank you for your reply...

I know umounting will let me apparently do what I'm seeking, but only 
apparently, in that... I get the link but lose the diskspace.

What I'm tryin' to do, though am clearly not bein' clear  :-) is:

1-NOT lose the empty space on /drive1/home when I delete home, i.e.
I want to recapture the space on drive1 when I delete /home

How can I recapture the freed-up space
on /drive1 as an extension of /, so that
when I'm, say, compiling, that this space
will then be available for the purpose   ?

2-have a link from what was /drive1/home to /drive2/home which would
maintain the functionality but on another drive, i.e.

ln -s /drive2/home /drive1/ln->/drive2/home

Is the best way  ?

Gratefully,

Courtney





Randal Jarrett wrote:

> You did unmount the partition first?
> 
> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 19:03 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> 
>> 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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