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

[JK]

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