We all know that mounting a new partition as /home and maybe /boot is extremely useful. Or mounting a remote directory as /opt can be great for sharing system tools. Are there any other, maybe more esoteric, uses for extra partitions or hard drives or nifty ways to mount external volumes? Maybe even if anyone also has windows machines *shudder*, post some cool tricks involving partitioning and hard drive mounting.
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FUSE (Filesystem in USErspace) allows many things to be accessible as ordinary files (not an exhaustive list by any means):
There are also many FUSE filesystems that present a view of another filesystem with filtering, renaming or modified metadata or content:
More possibilities on the FUSE site and elsewhere. You can also easily define your own in Erlang, Haskell, Lisp, Lua, Ocaml, Perl, Python, ...