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Name: Anand Date: September 25, 2002 at 10:58:36 Pacific OS: RH 7.3 CPU/Ram: 512
Comment:
Hi, I am new to Linux.Just a few days old. I have noticed that in Linux a mount command succeeds only if one parameter is a block or a character special file. Whereas in HP and Sun, I can even issue a mount command when both the parameters are just plain directories.
Name: Richard Date: September 25, 2002 at 11:49:55 Pacific
Reply:
That isn't totally true.
For example
mount --bind /var/tmp /tmp will mean that /var/tmp and /tmp are the same place. (This is hard to explain, but it should make sense). This is useful if you run out of space somewhere on your disk, and you can't/don't want to use symlinks.
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