Re: How do I make a clean mount namespace?

[Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 03:12:11PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> I want to set up a little container.  So I unshare the mount namespace
>> and mount something somewhere (say /mnt) that I want to be my new
>> root.  Now what?
>>
>> pivot_root("/mnt", "/mnt/garbage") seems to frequently return -EBUSY.
>
> RTFM.  Literally - man 2 pivot_root and look for the only place where
> it mentions EBUSY.
>
> If you get that error, check what you've got in /proc/mounts (in the
> namespace your process is in, obviously) just before the syscall.
> With these arguments you really want /mnt to be a mountpoint.  If your
> new root really lives on the same fs as the old one, just do
> mount --bind /mnt /mnt before any other mounts.

Wow -- thanks!  I read that part, but I'm apparently bad at following
directions.

Should I expect things to work if I unshare mounts but don't do a
mount --make-rprivate / before the pivot_rot?

--Andy