From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S8eZ9-0005WD-21 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:20:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F2BCE0B14; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com (mail-wi0-f175.google.com [209.85.212.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6A8E0AAB for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:18:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn6 with SMTP id hn6so1276903wib.10 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:18:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/EAt6jQz2ThXre27UmISVb9B35+oE7jx/Al7bRgdUa0=; b=VJTm+1PeTVeSpodcFWmmRugeVzF4lvHVNDIGmX5t5FSlOXD/lKLVjYg0jkjJLBOH/Z FvX0R9bdQzIp6clKf0o5VAMlyQuLP2JrAbHEAg6P5Xfe/F/DCYCjKmxJYpR+LKp2D5CR LXrFYNLYCwlm7ir2ORcOteZDoQlFJ3SSiDGY+rHrIlGLib5mKcccGwQ4mi+jj44VhdWg /lEgv3ydFIorX/H1M203ZeSJELS3pSrduS0qPlV0lBJqP5PGFyjZLBpsJSic1ghhyl1o Vrtrb4vc1s7cFZWaoxbyo6CC68Xgyi5Bjt4uMGDsoSv0hjMzlGASlUnYSzI6OQ76WOqs 3soA== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.202.99 with SMTP id c77mr3027334weo.5.1331932716560; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:18:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.8.68 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:18:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:18:36 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] To mount or not to Mount proc, that is the question From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6558c1ad-9c99-4977-93d6-7c50bff96018 X-Archives-Hash: c92fe13661bbda0dca36d0b66b25386d On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote= : >> Looking at the Gentoo amd64 install guide here: >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3D1&chap=3D8 >> >> it appears that the recommendation is to mount proc. >> >> [QUOTE] >> >> /dev/sda1 =C2=A0 /boot =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0ext2 =C2=A0 =C2=A0defa= ults,noatime =C2=A0 =C2=A0 1 2 >> /dev/sda2 =C2=A0 none =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 swap =C2=A0 =C2=A0sw = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 0 0 >> /dev/sda3 =C2=A0 / =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0ext3 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0noatime =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A00 1 >> >> /dev/cdrom =C2=A0/mnt/cdrom =C2=A0 auto =C2=A0 =C2=A0noauto,user =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A00 0 >> >> proc =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0/proc =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0proc = =C2=A0 =C2=A0defaults =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 0 0 >> shm =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 /dev/shm =C2=A0 =C2=A0 tmpfs =C2=A0 node= v,nosuid,noexec =C2=A00 0 >> >> [QUOTE] > > I haven't put /proc explicitly on my /etc/fstab since a long time ago, > and everything seems to be working. However, I use systemd, which > always mounts /proc with the default options, and only uses the entry > in /etc/fstab (if present) to override the default options. In other > words, systemd always mounts /proc, no matter if it's listed in > /etc/fstab or not. > > I don't know what OpenRC does, but it would not surprise me that it's > something similar. > > Regards. > -- > Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s > Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n > Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico > Thanks Canek. I appreciate your response. It seems when rereading the link above the authors do put the work 'example' in italics, implying that possibly I should know what I'm doing and not depend on the text on that page. I'm fine with the not depending part. I'm not so sure about the 'know what I'm doing' part. ;-) I'm going to take a wild guess that it's somehow mounted in an init script these days but I have no reason to know that's actually how it gets done. I did read the kernel docs and it doesn't seem to be done automatically by the kernel AFAICT. Thanks, Mark