Mount points in Hardy

[aged hippy]

When i installed Hardy, i couldn't seem to find a way to mount more than one partition on a given mountpoint, for example, /media.

I like to be able to access all the partitions (and both drives) from /media - as in Gutsy, is this possible in Hardy?

When i tried to do this previously. the partitioner kept on refusing.

[jglen490]

Re: Mount points in Hardy

As far as I know, a partition must be unique to a hardware platform and a specifically named mount point must be uniquely named to a filesystem.

This doesn't mean that you can't have subdirectories scattered hither and yon on different partitions. the /media high level directory is a great example. It's subs can be all over the map, such as:
/media/cdrom
/media/floppy
/media/sdb1

each of which is a unique piece of hardware. It's just that you can't have a "/media" on your hard drive and a "/media" on your cdrom and a "/media" on your usb device, and so on. Each of these instances would have to be uniquely named with a subdirectory, for instance.

I hope that's what you are talking about!

john@john-laptop:/$ ls -al /media
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-08-21 16:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2008-08-18 22:16 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  6 2008-08-17 17:11 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-17 17:11 cdrom0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  45 2008-08-17 17:15 .directory -> /etc/kubuntu-default-settings/directory-media
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  7 2008-08-17 17:11 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-17 17:11 floppy0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 2008-08-21 16:35 .hal-mtab
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  42 2008-08-17 17:15 .hidden -> /etc/kubuntu-default-settings/hidden-media
john@john-laptop:/$

On mine /media/cdrom0, /media/floppy0, and when mounted /media/disk all appear under "media" in Dolphin or Konqueror. But there aren't three /media or three "media" entries anywhere. I hope that I haven't confused the issue .

[dibl]

Re: Mount points in Hardy

i couldn't seem to find a way to mount more than one partition on a given mountpoint,

One mount point mounts one partition.

However, within /media you can make as many mount points as you wish, i.e.

/media/music
/media/images
/media/disk3
/media/seagate
/media/porno

etc. etc.

[aged hippy]

Re: Mount points in Hardy

/media/porno

... i'll need more than that!....
I didn't realise that it's merely a matter of re-naming them.

Thanks for the info dibl.

Thanks for the info, jglen490, installing Linux can - for some of us - be confusing.


HH here i come - again.