Linking Direcotry with Hardrive

[tman144566]

How do you link a file directory to an external hard drive.An example would be if I have a usb hard drive and I want the the folder /usr/bin/games to be considered the external hard drive. Really, my main purpose for this link is to have more space in the folder /usr/bin/games.

Thanks

[Dapper Dan]

I don't know if my answer to your question will be in the way you may be anticipating, but mostly, external hard drives (specifically their file systems) are mounted at /mnt. So let's say you have an external usb hard drive and it is situated in /dev as sda1. First, you would create the directory where it will be mounted to in /mnt...

mkdir /mnt/external_usb

* you can name it whatever you wish when creating the mount point. After its creation, mount the drive to it:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/external_usb

Then, enter it:

cd /mnt/external_usb

I hope this helps...

[scm]

And then change your /usr/bin/games directory to a symlink:

rm -rf /usr/bin/games
ln -s /mnt/eternal_usb /usr/bin/games

Make sure you save first anything that's under the original /usr/bin/games that you don't want to lose, of course! And /usr/bin/games will be just a dangling link when the usb drive isn't mounted.