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From: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Subject: Re: Unmounting and ejecting the root fs on shutdown.
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:37:13 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <E44E649C7AA1D311B16D0008C73304460933B1@caspian.prebus.uppsala.se>,
Per Erik Stendahl  <PerErik@onedial.se> wrote:
>Mounting a ramdisk for / is doable (I think) but kludgy since you have
>to symlink or mount so many subdirectories. Right now I only have /var
>in a ramdisk (and why _WHY_ is /etc/mtab located in /etc and not
>in /var??).

If /var is on a seperate partition, how are you going to access it
if /var hasn't been mounted yet ?

Mike.
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I live the way I type; fast, with a lot of mistakes.

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