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. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
