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I have directories sorted by date on different physical drives:

/mnt/drive1/2000
/mnt/drive1/2001
/mnt/drive2/2002
/mnt/drive3/2003
/mnt/drive4/2004
/mnt/drive4/2005
/mnt/drive5/2006

How can I get them to appear in a single folder, without using symbolic links?

/library/2000
/library/2001
/library/2002
/library/2003
/library/2004
/library/2005
/library/2006

Can I "mount" the folders to another folder? The reason I shy away from symlinks is because when I use applications like rsync and scp, I'd like to be able to copy to the symbolically linked directory without worrying about special flags to ensure the symlinks are followed.

Thanks.

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  • can't you just remount them each one in its year's folder ?
    – Hanan
    Dec 26, 2011 at 14:37
  • Some drives have multiple years.
    – ensnare
    Dec 26, 2011 at 18:34

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Two options:

1) Use Hard symlinks. Rsync doesn't need special flags to traverse these, because they look like part of the filesystem. - Of course, this only works on the same filesystem, which doesn't apply.

2) A bind mount. sudo mount -o bind /source /dest.

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    Hard links are only possible on the same filesystem. Just delete your first option.
    – Jeff Strunk
    Dec 26, 2011 at 14:38
  • Is there any performance degradation to using a bind mount?
    – ensnare
    Dec 26, 2011 at 18:24
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    Not as far as I know... As with everything though, test test test!
    – growse
    Dec 26, 2011 at 19:38

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