can i mount a partition in my home folder?

[Guest]

greetings. just installed 8.1 to a usb stick with 2 partitions. one is ext2 and the other fat32.

after install i had only 600mb left on the linux partition. for simplicity i'd like to put all my documents in my home directory in seperate folders like documents, movies, music etc.

i'd like to have these directories on my fat32 partition but have them act like regular folders on the linux partition. i am not sure how.

basically:
/home/me/documents

is the same folder as

/dos/documents

[Snowhog]

Re: can i mount a partition in my home folder?

Yes.

[Isix]

Re: can i mount a partition in my home folder?

On a different note, you only have 600mb left on your new linux partition. Does it not look like a very small space to live on --- considering that you may want to still install other stuff in linux as time goes.

[Guest]

Re: can i mount a partition in my home folder?

i thought 3gb would be enough. its only a 4gig stick. i havent really installed anything and its already down to 250mb free. theres not much i really want to install though so oh well.

sure would like to know how to mount these folders though.

mount /dev/sda5/folder /home/me/folder

does not work. a path prefix is not a directory!

[dibl]

Re: can i mount a partition in my home folder?

mount /dev/sda5/folder /home/me/folder

The mount command requires:

(a) authority to use the command (i.e. root only)
(b) a filesystem type,
(c) a device to be mounted, and
(d) a mount point.

I think you have only correctly satisfied requirement (d). An example of using the mount command could be:

sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda5 /home/me/folder_1

If you have the device /dev/sda5 mounted, then you could symlink a folder on it, say /dev/sda5/docs, to your /home/me folder. A symlink is the Linux version of what Windows calls a "shortcut". Use Konqueror or Dolphin, with a window open to both places, and simply copy the folder you want, right click over your /home/me folder, and choose "link here".