[newbie] moving a /mnt point

[Thanh Nguyen Huynh]

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Definitely no. Mounting is basically adding new link to a node (say=20
/mnt/shared/) in your filesystem. So just unmount it, make new node and the=
m=20
mount it back.

On June 26, 2003 06:55 pm, David Lee wrote:
> 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 whe=
re
> > > 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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