On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:35:43PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> writes: > > > my reading of man mount suggests that you want > > > > mount --rbind / /mnt > > -------^^^ > > > > but its not very clearly written (IMO) so I suggest you > > touch a dummy file in the new /usr and double check whether its in > > /mnt/usr as a test to confirm that the mount of new /usr doesn't carry > > over. > > > I'm not sure that's right. weeee... > > Since Linux 2.4.0 it is possible to remount part of the file hierarchy > somewhere else. The call is > mount --bind olddir newdir > After this call the same contents is accessible in two places. One can > also remount a single file (on a single file). > > This call attaches only (part of) a single filesystem, not possible > submounts. The entire file hierarchy including submounts is attached a > second place using > mount --rbind olddir newdir yeah, okay, I see it now, though it maybe could be worded better. The obvious part, though is the 'r' as in 'r'ecursive... thanks A
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