Mount vs Link?

[akshay_abd]

Hey all,

I'm wondering what the difference between a mount and a link is? if you mount /home/username to /home/username2/username its almost like a link is created there /home/username2/username points to /home/username.

I'm exploring the characteristics of a mounted directory, as in trying the following:

-d file True if file exists and is a directory.
-l file True if file exists and is a link

The -d passes - but I'm getting the -l to fail - which says mounted dirs are not links. How are they different?

[Runn3r.cze]

by mounting you can mount any place you want to your mount place, then you can unmount it and mount there another place
but if you create a link, you can't change where it links, it will still link to the same place...