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

[Randal Jarrett]

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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