Re: Access second directory tree

[Hugo van der Kooij <Hugo van der Kooij caiw nl>]

On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

> I currently have two RedHat distributions, on separate HD partitions, on my
> platform; 4.1 and 4.2.  I use the 4.1 installation on a routine, daily
> basis for research in computational chemistry and don't want to do anything
> that will cause problems.
> 
> I am using the 4.2 installation, which is on a smaller partition than the
> 4.1 distribution, as a development platform to test new software and
> upgrades.  I would like, however, to be able to access each Linux partition
> form the other.  I have tried using fstool to mount the 4.2 tree while in
> 4.1 but it doesn't seem to work, more specifically the tool won't allow me
> to completely define the file tree that I want to access with regard to
> file type.  I haven't tried editing fstab manually for fear of mucking
> something up.

You can start by creating the proper mount points your self and mount them
manualy.

Like:
	mkdir /other
	mount /dev/hb1 /other

If that works out start with editing /etc.fstab as needed.

Hugo.

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