Hello sibu,

sibu xolo:
> A) I tried  manual mount  with :-
>
> mount -t aufs -o br=/tmp/rw:/var  none /tmp/aufs
>
> (It responded with this
> /sbin/mount.aufs:mount.aufs.c:215 /etc/mtab: read-only filesystem

When your /etc/mtab is not writable, mount(8) cannot update /etc/mtab
and this message is produced. If you specify "-n" option to the
command, then it won't update /etc/mtab and you can succeed.


> B)  I tried   mounting at boot time with this  line in /etc/fstab
>
> none    /var  aufs  rw,br=/tmp/rw  /tmp/aufs  0 0
>
> -------
> In either case   notning   was mounted as an ls  of /tmp/rw  or /tmp/aufs 
> yielded nothing.

If you don't have /tmp/rw and /tmp/aufs, mount(8) will fail.


J. R. Okajima

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