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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 06:42:01 +0400
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To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not
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Alexander Viro wrote:

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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.)
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>>The point is, right now I can't free the initial ramdisk because it has an 
>>active mount point under it..
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>umount -l
>mount --move
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It seems Linux evolves faster than I can track.  These are nice features.:)

Hans


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