From: "Jorge Martínez López" <jorgeml@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:13:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMgZwF2Np96y2F3xOuZVJRKvAg8Humu6dm=4nu-=urGKMFz1tQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPrc806wfqCY5a41i5mKPLAjFVs+yLLRFRGz3skMGQxNZq0Ag@mail.gmail.com>
Hello!
2012/3/11 Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com>:
>> The next step was to remove /usr from /etc/fstab to prevent /usr from
>> being mounted twice (the boot process does not like it).
>
> Mmmh. Could you try to use LABEL= in /etc/fstab (not /etc/fstab), and
> see if that way it gets mounted, and only once? The udev developers
> recommend using either UUID or LABEL; and LABEL it's easier (and
> prettier) to set.
I actually did not remove it:
/dev/mapper/vg-usr /usr ext4 noauto,noatime 1 2
I am afraid of what would happen if I remove noauto. As far as I
recall the boot procedure aborted.
>
>> The last obstacle is /etc/mtab. By the time /usr is mounted I believe
>> / is mounted as read only, so mount cannot update /etc/mtab. The
>> trivial solutions is to delete /etc/mtab and make it a symlink to
>> /proc/mounts . In that case it is always up to date.
>
> I think the link is to /proc/self/mounts; /proc/mounts it's a link to
> it, actually.
You are right.
Cheers,
--
Jorge Martínez López <jorgeml@gmail.com> http://www.jorgeml.net
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Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-10 2:48 [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts Dale
2012-03-10 3:44 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-10 4:16 ` Dale
2012-03-10 5:41 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-10 6:03 ` Dale
2012-03-10 8:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-10 9:45 ` Dale
2012-03-10 9:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-10 9:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-10 10:30 ` Dale
2012-03-10 10:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-10 11:28 ` Dale
2012-03-10 11:12 ` William Kenworthy
2012-03-10 10:58 ` pk
2012-03-10 15:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-10 20:50 ` pk
2012-03-10 21:01 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-10 22:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-11 2:36 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-11 9:37 ` pk
2012-03-11 12:16 ` Jorge Martínez López
2012-03-11 18:26 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-12 18:13 ` Jorge Martínez López [this message]
2012-03-11 20:59 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-03-12 18:23 ` Jorge Martínez López
2012-03-12 18:30 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-12 18:39 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-12 20:25 ` Mick
2012-03-12 20:39 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-12 20:40 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-12 23:22 ` Dale
2012-03-12 23:53 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-13 15:35 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-13 15:50 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13 1:58 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-13 4:54 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13 7:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-13 7:31 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13 7:38 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-13 8:03 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13 11:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-13 18:34 ` pk
2012-03-14 16:17 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-14 16:28 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-14 22:15 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-15 1:03 ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-15 2:47 ` Dale
2012-03-15 9:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-15 10:10 ` Dale
2012-03-15 10:18 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-15 12:41 ` Tanstaafl
2012-03-15 13:05 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-15 13:56 ` Tanstaafl
2012-03-15 14:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-15 14:13 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-16 5:39 ` Joost Roeleveld
2012-03-16 8:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-15 14:09 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-15 14:47 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-15 16:37 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-16 18:14 ` Dale
2012-03-15 12:38 ` Tanstaafl
2012-03-13 8:09 ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-13 8:20 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-14 14:21 ` Dale
2012-03-14 14:41 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-14 14:55 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-13 8:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2012-03-11 3:25 ` John Blinka
2012-03-10 17:13 ` Todd Goodman
2012-03-10 21:07 ` Dale
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