Mounting Directories

[Falmarri]

This isn't a Ubuntu (Kubuntu) specific question, but a general linux question I guess. I know how to mount devices no problem, but I'm wondering if this is possible. I'm dual booting windows 7 and kubuntu, and I want to know if I can mount my windows My Documents folder to my ~/Documents. It doesn't have to be able to account for new users or multiple users. I'd just like to be able to directly mount /dev/sda2/Documents\ and\ Settings\Users\whatever to /home/falmarri/Documents

[Cabhan]

You cannot mount directories. You can only mount full partitions.

So for instance, you could mount your entire Windows partition and access your My Documents directory that way. A relatively recent guide on how to do this is at:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mo...dowsPartitions

Hope this helps.

[Falmarri]

Yeah, I know how to do that. The problem is that I'm doing this for a friend who's just learning linux. So I'd prefer not to mount the windows partition in its entirety and I'd like to make it somewhat seamless. Is this possible? :

Can I mount the partition into /mnt/win for example as 000, or 700 or something, and then symlink the Documents folder to ~/Documents or whatever? I know my way around linux, but it's almost always for personal reasons, so I'm not an expert on how permissions work for this kind of thing.

[Irithori]

Use a bind mount
mount --bind /existing/directory /whereever/you/want/it

man mount says, this feature exists since 2.4.0 and can of course be set in fstab.

Just make sure, the windows partition is mounted before, then mount the "My Documents" directory to Documents in your users´ home.

You might have some fun with escaping the spaces in "My Documents", but this should be doable also

[elija]

Could you do something similar with a symlink to the mounted partions sub directory?

Although the --bind thing seems slicker