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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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> Logically, the second /var mount should be "mount --move /initrd/var /var", 
> followed by "umount /initrd" to free up the initrd memory.  Right now it's 
> doing "mount -n --bind /initrd/var /var", because /etc is a symlink into /var 
> (has to remain editable, you see), and this way the information about which 
> partition var actually is can be kept in one place.  (This is an 
> implementation detail: I could have used volume labels instead.)
> 
> The point is, right now I can't free the initial ramdisk because it has an 
> active mount point under it..

umount -l
mount --move


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