[newbie] moving a /mnt point

David Lee newbie@vlug.org
26 Jun 2003 11:55:35 -0700


Thanks for you reply.

However, I have files already on the drive. Wouldn't I lose those?

David



On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 04:34, Thanh Nguyen Huynh wrote:
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> Fish you should unmout first the do the move or simply del and create a new 
> directory in mnt and mount the share partiton on to the new dir.
> It's good practice to mount everything in mnt anyway.
> 
> Good day,
> 
> Thanh
> 
> On June 26, 2003 05:51 pm, David Lee wrote:
> > Good morning
> >
> > when I recently set up a new install on a dual boot machine, I wanted to
> > share a drive for files common to win and lin.
> >
> > However, I called this mount point /winlin instead of /mnt/winlin where
> > I would like it to show.
> >
> > Is it simple as mv /winlin /mnt/winlin?
> > Or more complicated?
> >
> > Thank you
> > David Lee
> >
> >
> >
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