Is it possible access software installed on one partition from another

Linux and Unix-Like Red Hat
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Hello Team

my scenario is like i have 2 partitions on server. /apps and /home and i am trying to install my software in /apps partition.intstallation is successful but when i am trying to open something in that its showing blank screen.

now if i install that software in /home it works fine.

my question is there any permissions/rights issue with this scenario.

Thanks
Lal Gourav

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Welcome lalgourav1983

Well, you would need to tell us a bit more before anyone can really help you here:-

  • What is the OS and version of the server? - output from uname -a would be fine
  • What capacity are the filesystems? - output from df -k /apps /home would be fine
  • What is the software?
  • How would you expect to start up this software?
  • What dependencies does it have?
  • Are the correct settings made for $PATH, $LIBPATH, $COBPATH etc. or whatever your application needs?
  • What is it supposed to be doing anyway?

You've not given us a lot of clues. Written properly, software could be installed to any filesystem you choose, so you may have to work more with the creator.

Thanks, in advance,
Robin

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To read data on another partition you need a mount point, which is just a special purpose directory. See man mount .

To do a little investigating, see if the /apps partition is listed in /etc/mtab . You can also use mount -l command to get a similar list. Apparently /home is already mounted and should be listed.