On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 14:44 +1100, Nick Urbanik wrote: > I have a 512 gigabyte 3ware raid partition, and am using it for many > different purposes, and had used symlinks to access it. I'm changing > it to mount as you sensibly suggest. You could use LVM to pool your local disk containing / and the raid partition containing /opt; this makes the fact that the files are on different stores transparent to applications and removes the need for symlinks or bind mounts, and in general is a lot nicer to manage. > That's a wonderful idea! The mount man page indicates that I can use > > mount --move /opt/nicku /home/nicku Ah, it's unclear to me exactly what --move is supposed to do; the example doesn't work for me.