Here's what I want to do: Store all my shows/movies/music on usb drives. When I fill them up, I want to be able to add 1 more large capacity drive and proceed to gradually fill it up. Then buy another drive, etc. etc. This I have been able to accomplish so far, but i end up having a directory structure that looks like this:



This makes it an obvious pain to look for, alphabetize, etc. my videos. as a simple example:



I would like to be able to have a directory structure that would look more like this:



As you can see, the "usbstorage" directory puts all subdirectories from all usb drives into one directory.

I know you can do this with 'unionfs' as I've experienced it with my knoppix diagnostics boot disc. Would using unionfs be overkill? Is there a simpler way to do what I want to accomplish? Any gotcha's if unionfs is the best way? Thanks in advance.

Put the storage in an arbitrary place and set up a link farm like the /myth/pretty directory. You can even steal a bunch of code from the script that generates that.