Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

[John Jolet <john@jolet.net>]

On Mar 10, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Eric Bliss wrote:

> On Friday 10 March 2006 03:17, Josh Helmer wrote:
>> On Friday 10 March 2006 18:05, Eric Bliss wrote:
>>> Before you do that...  did you also edit /etc/mtab in addition to
>>> /etc/fstab?
>>>
>>> Just a thought, since we are talking about separate partitions to  
>>> mount.
>>
>> Don't touch mtab.   mtab is auto-magically generated by mount.
>>
>> Josh
>
> Ah, okay.  Learn something every day.  I just remembered seeing mount
> information in that file when I was reading it (although why I was  
> doing
> that, I now have no idea).  Guess this would explain why.  Now if  
> only I
> could remember why I had even read the file in the past.  You don't  
> edit it
> during the original install process do you?
>
before you chroot, you copy /proc/mounts to it so your chrooted  
environment matches.....maybe that's where you saw it.
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> Eric Bliss
> systems design and integration,
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