prepping for teaching a (home-written) course in red hat enterprise linux admin next month and decided i might as well dig into a few topics i've never really understood intimately, so i'll be asking about them over the next few posts. first up -- bind mounts. does anyone have a *compelling* application for bind mounts they can share? when i started searching, one of the first pages i came across was this: http://backdrift.org/how-to-use-bind-mounts-in-linux where my first thought was, "um, i'd just use a symlink for that," and that's exactly what one of the commenters said as well. although said commenter went on to point out that bind mounts would make more sense in the context of a chroot environment or a VM. i can also see the intricacies of having recursive versus non-recursive bind mounts, but i'm still reading. in any event, does anyone here use bind mounts on a regular basis, and for what? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================