{"id":961,"date":"2012-01-21T01:18:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T00:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stenyak.com\/?p=961"},"modified":"2012-01-21T01:18:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T00:18:11","slug":"awesomemounter-join-plug-n-play-drives-into-a-single-large-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stenyak.com\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"AwesomeMounter: join plug’n’play drives into a single large directory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever run out of space, and decided to offload<\/strong> some of the bigger files to a second (or third…<\/em>) disk?\u00a0Sometimes even an external<\/strong> drive?
\nAre you tired of having to look around all disks in order to find that<\/em>\u00a0specific file?<\/p>\n

Well, you’re in luck!
\nBecause AwesomeMounter<\/strong> is an awesome<\/em> program that will get you rid of all that mess, without ever needing to know<\/strong> what LVM<\/a>, RAID<\/a>, or even\u00a0filesystem<\/a><\/em>\u00a0means.<\/p>\n

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(…probably!)<\/p>\n

AwesomeMounter is free<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0GPLv3<\/strong>.\u00a0Based on inotify<\/a> and mhddfs<\/a>\u00a0[en<\/a>], it’s actually a pretty simple bash script (so if you’re interested, you can easily tinker with it).<\/p>\n

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What can AwesomeMounter<\/strong> do?<\/h2>\n

Here’s an example. You’ve got 3 places where you store music: your Linux home (50 gigs), a Windows partition (100gigs), and an 8 gigs USB pendrive:<\/p>\n

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  1. \/home\/foo\/music\/<\/strong><\/span><\/code> (has reggae and jazz subdirectories)<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. \/mnt\/windows\/data\/mp3\/<\/strong><\/span><\/code> (has pop and jazz subdirectories)<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. \/media\/pendrive\/songs\/<\/strong><\/span><\/code> (has hiphop and electro subdirectories)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And you want all the music in a single place. Namely:<\/p>\n