that is interesting, Brian; thank you. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > On 01/29/2013 12:24 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> I have a question >> though, I tested it and when I copied a file into /home/bmike1/Pictures >> >> the file went to the desired directory. Why if I copy it to the desired >> directory directly does it not go to /home/bmike1/Pictures also? It must >> have to do with the order you put the the two directories in >> > > A bind mount works like mounting any other hard drive. Everything below > the place that you mount the filesystem gets replaced by the drive you > mount on top of it. If your filesystem were a tree it would be like > cutting off a limb and grafting a new limb onto where you cut it off. > There is a way to layer up directories, it's call a Union filesystem and > allows you to merge directories together, but they are a little harder to > setup that just a simple mount. > > > sudo mount ~bmike1/Pictures >> >> why is it '~bmike1/Pictures' and not '~/bmike1/Pictures'? >> > > the ~ means "home directory of", if you have just a ~ by itself it will > refer to the home directory of the current user, if you put a ~ in front of > a user name, it means the home directory of that user. > Since you were most likely mounting stuff as root, you needed to include > the user name after the ~, otherwise you could have simply put ~/Pictures. > In your case if you were to have put ~/bmike1/Pictures, as root it would > actually turn into the path /root/bmike1/Pictures or if you had run the > command as bmike1 it would have really meant /home/bmike1/bmike1/pictures > > Brian Cluff > > > ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >