I must be missing something, but why not just use a symlink? Ray At 09:41 AM 4/10/2004, you wrote: >Am Sa, den 10.04.2004 schrieb leam um 18:18: > >> I can do a >> >> mount --bind /export/up2date /var/spool/up2date >> >> to get /var some space. But of course that'll go away on reboot. Is >> there a stanza I can use in /etc/fstab to get it on boot? > >bind is a mount option and as an option it goes to the 4th column in >/etc/fstab, along with other possible options. > >You can easily check this if you use your mount command from above to >bind mount and then check /etc/mtab to see that bind goes as an option >like rw. the mtab file is a "live image" of mounted filesystems. If you >do nothing by hand then mtab replicates the fstab as a live view. > >> ciao! >> >> leam > >Alexander