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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Replace root with aufs-united sda & squashfs
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On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:01:43AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:

> AFAIK, there are files that *must* still exist for this strategy to
> succeed. However, this post from f.g.o [2] said that those files
> aren't necessary. So, I should do the following sequence in /etc/fstab
> :
> 
> 1. Mount /dev/xvda3 as /
> 2. Mount /.root.sqfs as /
> 3. Mount aufs, uniting /dev/xvda3 and /.root.sqfs as /
> 4. Mount everything else

AFAIK, it should be more something like:

  mount -t aufs "/dev/xvda3(rw) and /root/sqfs(ro)" /new_root

And then chroot to /new_root.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht