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From: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unmounting and ejecting the root fs on shutdown.
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:37:13 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <97j9fp$h1o$1@ncc1701.cistron.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E44E649C7AA1D311B16D0008C73304460933B1@caspian.prebus.uppsala.se>

In article <E44E649C7AA1D311B16D0008C73304460933B1@caspian.prebus.uppsala.se>,
Per Erik Stendahl  <PerErik@onedial.se> wrote:
>Mounting a ramdisk for / is doable (I think) but kludgy since you have
>to symlink or mount so many subdirectories. Right now I only have /var
>in a ramdisk (and why _WHY_ is /etc/mtab located in /etc and not
>in /var??).

If /var is on a seperate partition, how are you going to access it
if /var hasn't been mounted yet ?

Mike.
-- 
I live the way I type; fast, with a lot of mistakes.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-28 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-28 16:12 Unmounting and ejecting the root fs on shutdown Per Erik Stendahl
2001-02-28 16:26 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2001-02-28 16:37 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-01  8:47 Per Erik Stendahl
2001-03-01 21:01 ` Jeremy Jackson
2001-03-01  3:33 Jeremy Jackson
2001-02-28 18:07 David Balazic
2001-02-21  8:27 Per Erik Stendahl
2001-02-28 14:32 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2001-02-28 15:29   ` James A. Sutherland
2001-02-28 15:56     ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2001-02-28 18:06       ` James A. Sutherland

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