Re: Time Zone & mount points
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote:
>
> > *) I've got /bin mounted seperately as r/o. Now, I'd like to move
> > /sbin there as well. I assume that what I need to do is to mount
> > a new directory (say /mnt/robins) and have /bin,/sbin directories
> > therein and symlinked in root?
>
> Please do not do this. /bin and /sbin are required to be on the root file
> system. They contain binaries you need to fix things when you have
> troubles mounting file systems other than the root file system. The same
> goes for /lib and /etc.
Agreed. /etc gets written to anyway.
>
> What puzzles me is that you have /bin on a seperate mount point and you
> are still able to mount it. On my system, the only 'mount' binary is in
> /bin.
Conceivably, mount could be in a /bin in the root directory which gets
occluded (or whatever the correct un*x term is) by being mounted over.
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