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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting script to check for a directory in /home for all users Post 302484348 by methyl on Thursday 30th of December 2010 04:43:27 PM
Old 12-30-2010
Thank you for making the question clear. Sorry if I was a bit abrupt earlier.

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3. mount a separate directory that resided on a different partition at the mount point that has just been created for all users.
Like frans I am having difficulty understanding item 3 in a unix context.

The Linux "mount" command is used to mount a filesystem on a mountpoint.
A mountpoint is an empty directory which acts as a pointer to the filesystem.
We would normally mount the filesystem on system startup using parameters in one line of "fstab". I can't see a reason to make this dynamic.

As frans correctly deduced, the conventional approach in unix is to use a soft link (see "man ln") to point a directory under a user's home directory to a directory in a filesystem which is under a different mountpoint from the user's home directory.
I am unclear whether there is to be one common directory for all users or multiple individual directories.

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1. check if a given directory is present in /home of all users
2. create the directory if it is not present to act as a mount point
If we are using soft links, items 1 and 2 only need to be done once for existing accounts and then as required when a new account is created.


(I had not seen posts #5 and #6 before eventually posting).
 

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COPYFS-MOUNT(1) 						   User Commands						   COPYFS-MOUNT(1)

NAME
copyfs-mount - mounts a versioned file system SYNOPSIS
copyfs-mount version-directory mount-point DESCRIPTION
This script lets you mount a CopyFS file system. version-directory is the directory where the files and version information will be stored by CopyFS. When using CopyFS for the first time, copyfs-mount will create the required files in the version-directory before running copyfs-daemon. mount-point is the directory where the copyfs file system will be mounted. This is where the users will have access to the files. If you want to mount a CopyFS at '/mnt/fs', whose version directory is at /var/versions, you would use: root@host# copyfs-mount /var/versions /mnt/fs To unmount it, simply do: root@host# umount /mnt/fs As you would do for any other filesystem. You can also allow an ordinary non-root users to mount and unmount CopyFS filesystems provided that the user is added to the 'fuse' group. Ordinary users will be able unmount the filesystem, using the fusermount command: $ fusermount -u mount-point AUTHORS
CopyFS was created by Thomas Joubert and Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org> LINKS
<http://n0x.org/copyfs/> CopyFS web site. <http://fuse.sourceforge.net/> FUSE - Filesystem in USErspace SEE ALSO
copyfs(1), copyfs-fversion(1), copyfs-daemon(1), fusermount(1) copyfs-mount May 2008 COPYFS-MOUNT(1)
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