From: tyson@rwii.com
To: rminnich@lanl.gov
Cc: LKhatskevitch@cachier.com, mtd@infradead.org, linuxbios@lanl.gov
Subject: Re: nftl/DoC Mill. root fs question
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 16:40:16 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200012042140.QAA08601@server.rwii.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012041436200.16124-100000@mini.acl.lanl.gov>
On 4 Dec, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Levi Khatskevitch wrote:
>
>> it reports that / is /dev/root device and not /dev/nftla1 what did I miss?
>
> This is unix foolishness. Mounts are kept in /etc/mtab. Since the file
> system is readonly, this won't get fixed, since you can't update files in
> /etc.
>
> ron
I run systems with read-only file systems. Among other thigs, we
symlink /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts.
Cheers!
Ty
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-04 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-04 19:52 nftl/DoC Mill. root fs question Levi Khatskevitch
2000-12-04 21:36 ` Ronald G Minnich
2000-12-04 21:40 ` tyson [this message]
2000-12-04 22:05 ` Levi Khatskevitch
2000-12-04 21:51 ` Jan Danielsson
2000-12-04 22:08 ` Levi Khatskevitch
[not found] <Pine.LNX.3.96.1001206074454.1800T-100000@mail.perspex.com>
2000-12-06 7:33 ` Levi Khatskevitch
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