Re: chroot: wiped my home directory
Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es> writes:
> Actually this has turned out to be a disaster. I bind-mounted my
> 32bit home directory, which was also mounted normally. Both these
> mounts were in the fstab file. I chrooted from the 64bit system and
> su - mylogin name and set the display. I tried running openoffice
> and wonder of wonders it opened! The one thing that was strange was
> it acted as if my 32bit home directory was empty (gave my the
> running for the first time routine). Hmm. Well the result of all
> this was that my 32bit home directory was wiped clean. Dead! Gone
> forever! Damned inconvenient that. Suicide became a serious option
> but
Is it empty where it is directly mounted, too? Make sure you
bind-mount your home _after_ it is mounted in its original location.
Otherwise you bind-mount the empty mount point.
I bind-mount /home and other directories, too. And I did not yet have
any problem with that.
Matthias
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