Hiding 'bind' partitions

[Tony Arnold]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 00:47 +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have /home and /usr on a separate partition from /. I
> have /etc/fstab set up like this:
> 
> /mnt/home  /home           none    bind            0       0
> /mnt/usr     /usr                none    bind            0       0 
> 
> This makes them 'appear' to be at /home and /usr respectively. My
> problem is that when I do a find or locate I end up getting duplicate
> results. e.g.:

Can you not mount the partitions directly on /home and /usr? Why
involve /mnt at all?

Regards,
Tony.
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