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One of the things I grew to like about Linux was the /home directory. Any data for a user was always stored there. Furthermore, you could easily have that home directory on a different disc so when you deleted your system, you didn’t lose your user data too.

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Have you ever wanted to show the contents of another user’s directory in a folder of your own? Or perhaps for whatever reason wanted to have the contents of a directory in two places at once, but without copying across? Well in Linux there is a way. Directories can be bound to other directories. The contents of one directory shows up in another, change one, and you change them both. Say for example you had the following directory /usr/home/fred but you wanted it to appear in Tom’s home directory also. (more…)