[Mageia-discuss] bind in fstab

Fri Apr 22 17:09:39 CEST 2011

Op vrijdag 22 april 2011 06:54:05 schreef blind Pete:
+> on Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:30
+> in the Usenet newsgroup gmane.linux.mageia.user
+> 
+> Balcaen John wrote:
+> > On Thursday 21 April 2011 14:12:10, blind Pete wrote:
+> >> How do you bind (a part of) a file system in /etc/fstab?
+> >> 
+> >> "man fstab" says that the third field should be "none"
+> >> for bind or move mounts, but what should the rest of the
+> >> line be?
+> >> 
+> >> There is now an error message during the boot sequence about
+> >> there not being any such file system as "none".
+> > 
+> > /path/to/the/original/folder /path/to/the/bind/folder none bind
+> > 
+> > should work.
+> 
+> That is what I thought, but there were major problems when I
+> tried;
+> 
+> / /mnt/mageia none bind
+> 
+> and a few other variations like noauto, ro, etc.
+> 
+> It seems to not like remounting the entire file system.
+> 
+> Perhaps there is a recursion problem?
+> 
+> Thanks.
+
+i don't think remounting with bind options is going to work...
+
+your line should bind / to /mnt/mageia (i hope you're not trying the other way 
+around...)
+