Can I create a new mount point?

[VinylxScratches]

user@linux-6bgf:/etc/cron.hourly> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 60G 3.9G 53G 7% /
devtmpfs 993M 196K 993M 1% /dev
tmpfs 999M 80K 999M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/md0 60G 3.9G 53G 7% /
/dev/md1 1.8T 650G 1.1T 39% /home

I want to setup a new mount point that uses /dev/md1 but call it /share and it will utilize the same space as my /home drive? Is that possible?

 

[Colt45]

Can you rephrase that?

You want your current /home to be /share, and have a new /home ?

or you want /share to be a link to /home ?

 

[convoq]

Instead of creating a new mount point, you could create a new directory in /home then symlink to it. (And you don't have to bother shrinking a partition if your hard drives have no free space.)

cd /home
sudo mkdir share
sudo chmod 777 /home/share
cd /
sudo ln -s /home/share share

 

[Nothinman]

Sure, it's called a bind mount. mkdir /share;mount --bind /home /share.

But why are you wanting to do that?

 

[VinylxScratches]

I want all my media files to be under /share/Movies instead of /home/username/Movies/

 

[Nothinman]

Some things treat symlinks differently from a security perspective, so a bind mount will likely be more seamless. So if you're exporting /share via Samba, Apache, etc then the symlink may be more work, if it's just local semantics for yourself I doubt anything will care either way.

 

[VinylxScratches]

Thanks.