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Bug#781656: Cannot boot with a bind-mounted /usr



On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 17:38:11 +0100 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> Control: tag -1 wontfix
> 
> On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 12:14 +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> > Package: initramfs-tools
> > Version: 0.119
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > the initramfs-tools init script contains lines to mount /usr for use with
> > systemd. This mount does not work if /usr has to be bind-mounted from
> > another filesystem, with an fstab entry like this:
> > 
> > /export/usr     /usr            none    bind              0 0
> > 
> > With this entry in my fstab, the computer hang while booting, so I had to
> > move all data directly to /usr.
> 
> Sorry about that, but I don't think we can fix this.

This is now documented in the NEWS file and should be documented in the
release notes (#782178).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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