Mounting partitions, bizare question...

[Jewel]

On 7/11/05, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> 
> Whenever I browse to that partition to access my data, I have to first
> enter my user directory : /home/vincent.
> I wonder if there would be a way, for the system to put me directly
> into /home/vincent (instead of the root directory /home), when I browse
> this partition, or 'cd' to it at the command line.
> 
> this way if I do: "cd /media/hda5", instead of seeing :
> 
> ------
> lost+found  vincent
> ------
> 
> I will already be 'vincent'.
> 
> 
> Does fstab support that kind of option ? What's the syntax ? something
> like this maybe ?
> 

Not that I'm aware of.  What I do instead is create a symlink.  It
should do what you want.  For example, try:

ln -s /mnt/hda5/vincent/ /home/vincent/hoary-home

Jewel