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  • Thank you very much. This would get me only part of the way towards what I want. There are scripts. utilities, and user procedures which all reference /opt, and they would all have to be changed to refer to /media/opt, simply so that the Ubuntu version of chromium could be utilized. This is still needless work, IMO, since it's easier to simply bypass the snap version of that program altogether and use the non-snap version which I have now already installed. Commented Oct 26, 2020 at 13:24
  • @HippoMan no, you can continue to use /opt like before even if you do the additional mounting. Commented Oct 26, 2020 at 19:58
  • Hmm ... I think I see what you mean. If the original /opt in fstab is mounted to /media/opt instead, then the addtional bind mount that you describe would also allow it to be referred to as /opt. I guess that chromium could then also see it as /opt without having to refer to it there as /media/opt, correct? Commented Oct 27, 2020 at 17:55
  • The original mount applies, but the additional mount makes the tree available on /media/opt, too. I guess not, but you could experiment. Commented Oct 28, 2020 at 7:10