Can anyone give me any suggestions as to how they would resolve the following: I have four directories, let's call them 1 2 3 4. Now what I would like to do is have the contents of these directories available in a single directory tree, let's call it alldirs. I am quite familiar with mount --bind and its strengths, but I cannot figure out how . For example, mount --bind 1 alldirs, will expose the contents of 1 in alldirs, as though the contents of 1 are actually now in alldirs. However, I cannot figure how to do something similar that would allow me to combine four directories into one directory tree. I have tried: mount --bind 1,2,3,4 alldirs mount --bind 1 2 3 4 alldirs mount --bind 1:2:3:4 alldirs and none of these work. Any ideas? Steve Steve Dawes Calgary Canada.